Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse tefja.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

tefja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative tafði, supine tafið)

  1. to delay
  2. to hinder, to obstruct
  3. to tarry, to stay

Conjugation edit

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Related terms edit

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *tabjan-, from Proto-Indo-European *dobʰ-éie-, see also Sanskrit दिप्सति (dipsati, to deceive).

Verb edit

tefja (singular past indicative tafði, plural past indicative tǫfðu, past participle tafðr or tafiðr)

  1. to delay, hinder

Conjugation edit

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: tefja

References edit

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