heyja

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Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Related to hey (hay).

Verb

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heyja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heyjaði, supine heyjað)

  1. to make hay
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse heyja, from Proto-Germanic *hawjaną, cognate with Old English ġehēgan.

Verb

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heyja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative háði, supine háð)

  1. (transitive) to wage, hold, conduct, carry out (e.g. a battle, war) [with accusative]

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *hawjaną.

Verb

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heyja

  1. (transitive) to hold, to conduct [with accusative]
  2. to fight, to wage (battle)

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: heyja

References

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