telgja

Old Norse

Etymology

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

telgja

1. to carve, to cut (wood or stone or metal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of telgja — active (weak class 1)

infinitive	telgja
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
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

• Icelandic: telgja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: telgja; (dialectal) tægje
• Norwegian Bokmål: telgje
• Old Swedish: tælghia
  • Swedish: tälja

Further reading

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