mogga

Faroese

Etymology

The verb is first mentioned in Svabo's Dictionarium Færoense from about 1773. There, he describes it neutral as ‘to lie with a woman’ (Danish: bivaane et Fruetimmer, Latin: foeminam inire, coitum cum sexu femineo exercere). The second meaning is ‘to cut with a dull knife’ (Danish: skære med sløv Kniv, Latin: hebeti cultro secare). Hammershaimb/Jakobsen 1891 don't mention it, and Chr. Matras 1961 describes the first meaning as vulgar, and the second as archaic. This is also true for the Føroysk orðabók 1998.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔkːa/
• Rhymes: -ɔkːa
• Homophone: moggað

Verb

mogga (third person singular past indicative moggaði, third person plural past indicative moggaðu, supine moggað)

1. (vulgar) to fuck
   • hví moggar eingin í føroyskum skaldskapi?

     why does nobody fuck in Faroese fiction?

2. (archaic) to cut with a dull knife

Conjugation

Conjugation of mogga (group v-30)
infinitive	mogga
supine	moggað
participle (a6)1	moggandi	moggaður
	present	past
first singular	moggi	moggaði
second singular	moggar	moggaði
third singular	moggar	moggaði
plural	mogga	moggaðu
	imperative
singular	mogga!
plural	moggið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Synonyms

• hava samlegu (to have sex)
• fara at
• vera at

References

• mogga in: Jens Christian Svabo: Dictionarium Færoense : Færøsk-dansk-latinsk ordbog. (ed. Christian Matras after manuscripts from late 18th century). Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1966. (p. 559)