skeyti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skeyti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsceiːtɪ/

  Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

Noun

skeyti n (genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)

1. message
2. telegram (more fully símskeyti)
3. (archaic) shaft, missile, projectile

Declension

Declension of skeyti (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	skeyti	skeytið	skeyti	skeytin
accusative	skeyti	skeytið	skeyti	skeytin
dative	skeyti	skeytinu	skeytum	skeytunum
genitive	skeytis	skeytisins	skeyta	skeytanna

Derived terms

• símskeyti (“telegram”)
• loftskeyti (“wireless telegraph”)
• flöskuskeyti (“message in a bottle”)

Related terms

• viðskeyti (“suffix”) (from skeyta við)

Old Norse

Etymology

From skjóta (“to shoot”).

Noun

skeyti n

1. shaft, missile

Related terms

• skeyta
• skjóta

Descendants

• Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
• Icelandic: skeyti n

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “skeyti”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive