Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse feykja; causative of fjúka.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

feykja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative feykti, supine feykt)

  1. (transitive) to blow, drive (away)

Conjugation edit

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

Causative of fjúka (be blown about by the wind).

Verb edit

feykja

  1. to blow, drive (away)

Descendants edit

  • Faroese: foykja
  • Icelandic: feykja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: føykja
  • Swedish: föka

References edit

  • feykja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press