ráfa
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse ráfa, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move to and from, wander”).[1]
Verb
[edit]ráfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ráfaði, supine ráfað)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive nafnháttur | að ráfa | |||||
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supine sagnbót | ráfað | |||||
present participle |
ráfandi | |||||
indicative |
subjunctive | |||||
present |
past |
present |
past | |||
singular | ég | ráfa | ráfaði | ráfi | ráfaði | |
þú | ráfar | ráfaðir | ráfir | ráfaðir | ||
hann, hún, það | ráfar | ráfaði | ráfi | ráfaði | ||
plural | við | ráfum | ráfuðum | ráfum | ráfuðum | |
þið | ráfið | ráfuðuð | ráfið | ráfuðuð | ||
þeir, þær, þau | ráfa | ráfuðu | ráfi | ráfuðu | ||
imperative boðháttur | ||||||
singular | þú | ráfa (þú), ráfaðu | ||||
plural | þið | ráfið (þið), ráfiði1 |
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]- ráf (“wandering”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]ráfa f (genitive singular ráfu, nominative plural ráfur)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ráfa | ráfan | ráfur | ráfurnar |
accusative | ráfu | ráfuna | ráfur | ráfurnar |
dative | ráfu | ráfunni | ráfum | ráfunum |
genitive | ráfu | ráfunnar | ráfa | ráfanna |
References
[edit]- ^ Walter W[illiam] Skeat (1910) “WAVER”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1963, →OCLC.
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