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skaga

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skaga.

Verb

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skaga

  1. to protrude

Conjugation

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skaga.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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skaga (present tense skagar, past tense skaga, past participle skaga, passive infinitive skagast, present participle skagande, imperative skaga/skag)

  1. to protrude

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *skag- (to emerge, stick out), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (to jump, skip, move, hurry).[1][2] See also modern English shag.

Noun

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skaga

  1. inflection of skagi:
    1. indefinite oblique singular
    2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural

Verb

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skaga

  1. to jut out

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: skaga
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skage, skaga

References

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  • skaga”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “shaw”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “2672”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2672