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glepja

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Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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glepja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative glapti, supine glapið)

  1. to confuse, to confound
    Synonyms: trufla, rugla
  2. to distract
    Synonym: trufla
  3. to seduce, to debauch
    Synonyms: ginna, tæla, véla

Conjugation

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *glapjaną (to confuse)

Verb

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glepja (singular past indicative glapti, plural past indicative glǫptu, past participle glapiðr or glaptr)

  1. to confuse (someone)
  2. to confound
  3. to beguile

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: glepja

References

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  • glepja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press