spýja
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse spýja (compare Faroese spýggja, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish spy), from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną, whence also Dutch spuwen, German speien, English spew, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ), Persian تف (“spittle”), Ossetian ту (tu, “spittle”), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “I spit out”), Latin spuo, Old Church Slavonic пльвати (plĭvati) (Russian плевать (plevatʹ)) and Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
spýja (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative spjó, third-person plural past indicative spjóu, supine spúið) or spýja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative spúði, supine spúið)
Conjugation edit
Strong or (increasingly commonly) weak. May also be mixed, with the strong forms being retained mostly in the singular past indicative forms.
Noun edit
spýja f (genitive singular spýju, nominative plural spýjur)
Declension edit
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *spīwaną.
Verb edit
spýja (singular past indicative spjó, plural past indicative spjó, past participle spúinn)
- (transitive, with dative) to spew, to vomit
- hon spjó bloði
- she threw up blood
Conjugation edit
infinitive | spýja | |
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present participle | spýjandi | |
past participle | spúinn | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | spý | spjó |
2nd-person singular | spýr | spjótt |
3rd-person singular | spýr | spjó |
1st-person plural | spýjum | spjóm |
2nd-person plural | spýið | spjóð |
3rd-person plural | spýja | spjó |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | spýja | spýa |
2nd-person singular | spýir | spýir |
3rd-person singular | spýi | spýi |
1st-person plural | spýim | spýim |
2nd-person plural | spýið | spýið |
3rd-person plural | spýi | spýi |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | spý | |
1st-person plural | spýjum | |
2nd-person plural | spýið |
Descendants edit
Noun edit
spýja f (genitive spýju)
Declension edit
References edit
- spýja in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.