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létta

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See also: letta and Letta

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse létta, from Proto-Germanic *linhtijaną.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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létta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative létti, supine létt)

  1. to lighten (make less heavy)
  2. to make easier; to ease
  3. (impersonal) to (cause to) let up, to (cause to) abate [(optionally) with dative ‘bad weather or unfortunate conditions such as fever’] (when a dative object is present, idiomatically translated as "let up, abate" with the dative object as the subject)

Conjugation

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