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gegnum

Icelandic edit

Adverb edit

gegnum

  1. through

Derived terms edit

Verb edit

gegnum

  1. first-person plural active present indicative of gegna
  2. first-person plural active present subjunctive of gegna

Old English edit

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

ġeġnum

  1. (poetic) straight, directly

Old Norse edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Dative of the adjective gegn (“right, fitting”), derived from the preposition gegn (“against”), from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“towards”).

Preposition edit

gegnum

  1. (with accusative) through

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: gegnum
  • Faroese: gjøgnum
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gjennom
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gjennom
  • Old Swedish: gēnom
  • Danish: gennem

References edit

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