tutla

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tutla, among a class of words with similar beginnings such as þjóta (“to make a whistling sound”), tauta (“to murmur”), þys (“din, disturbance”), all related to Proto-Germanic *þeutaną (“to roar, howl”).

Verb

tutla (third person singular past indicative tutlaði, third person plural past indicative tutlað, supine tutlað)

1. to whisper

Conjugation

Conjugation of tutla (group v-30)

infinitive	tutla
supine	tutlað
	present	past
first singular	tutli	tutlaði
second singular	tutlar	tutlaði
third singular	tutlar	tutlaði
plural	tutla	tutlaðu
participle (a6)1	tutlandi	tutlaður
	imperative
singular	tutla!
plural	tutlið!

¹Only the past participle being declined.

Synonyms

• teska

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1097”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1097