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hrjóða

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *hreuþaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to cut).[1]

Verb

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hrjóða (singular past indicative hrauð, plural past indicative hruðu, past participle hroðinn)

  1. to unload
  2. to strip, disable
  3. (impersonal) to cause to clear away [with dative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "clear away" with the dative object as the subject)
    mun hroðit myrkvanum
    the fog will have cleared away

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: hrjóða
  • Faroese: rjóða

References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “616-17”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 616-17

Further reading

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  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
  • “hrjóða” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hrjóða”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 210; also available at the Internet Archive