telgja
Appearance
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Norse ᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ (talgidai) (third-person past singular), from Proto-Germanic *talgijaną. Related to talga (“a cutting, carving”), Old English telgor (“branch, bough”).
Verb
[edit]telgja
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of telgja — active (weak class 1)
infinitive | telgja | |
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present participle | telgjandi | |
past participle | telgðr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | telgi | telgða |
2nd-person singular | telgir | telgðir |
3rd-person singular | telgir | telgði |
1st-person plural | telgjum | telgðum |
2nd-person plural | telgið | telgðuð |
3rd-person plural | telgja | telgðu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | telgja | telgða |
2nd-person singular | telgir | telgðir |
3rd-person singular | telgi | telgði |
1st-person plural | telgim | telgðim |
2nd-person plural | telgið | telgðið |
3rd-person plural | telgi | telgði |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | telg, telgi | |
1st-person plural | telgjum | |
2nd-person plural | telgið |
Conjugation of telgja — mediopassive (weak class 1)
infinitive | telgjask | |
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present participle | telgjandisk | |
past participle | telgzk | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | telgjumk | telgðumk |
2nd-person singular | telgisk | telgðisk |
3rd-person singular | telgisk | telgðisk |
1st-person plural | telgjumsk | telgðumsk |
2nd-person plural | telgizk | telgðuzk |
3rd-person plural | telgjask | telgðusk |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | telgjumk | telgðumk |
2nd-person singular | telgisk | telgðisk |
3rd-person singular | telgisk | telgðisk |
1st-person plural | telgimsk | telgðimsk |
2nd-person plural | telgizk | telgðizk |
3rd-person plural | telgisk | telgðisk |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | telgsk, telgisk | |
1st-person plural | telgjumsk | |
2nd-person plural | telgizk |
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: telgja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: telgja; (dialectal) tægje
- Norwegian Bokmål: telgje
- Old Swedish: tælghia
- Swedish: tälja
References
[edit]- “telgja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press