ekki
English edit
Noun edit
ekki (uncountable)
- The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.
- 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 52:
- Refurbishment was carried out during a ten-day blockade. It entailed replacing timber elements with ekki hardwood, and more than 300 metal straps or bolts with stainless steel components.
Anagrams edit
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)
Declension edit
Declension of ekki (singular only) | ||
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m1s | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ekki | ekkin |
accusative | ekka | ekkan |
dative | ekka | ekkanum |
genitive | ekka | ekkans |
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse ekki (“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn (“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.
Adverb edit
ekki
- not
- Ég er ekki Alda!
- I'm not Alda!
- Ég fer ekki í dag því ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.
- I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.
- don't
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- ekki er allt gull sem glóir
- ekki baun
- ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið
- vera ekki við eina fjölina felldur
- peningar vaxa ekki á trjám
- kemba ekki hærurnar
Pronoun edit
ekki
Derived terms edit
- koma fyrir ekki (to be to no avail, to come to nothing)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.
Noun edit
ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)
Declension edit
declension of ekki
Synonyms edit
Ili Turki edit
< 1 | 2 | 3 > |
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Cardinal : ekki | ||
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i.
Numeral edit
ekki
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From earlier *eittki, *eittgi, equivalent to eitt (“one”) + -gi (“not”), literally “not one”. Originally neuter of engi.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)
Adverb edit
ekki
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: ekki
- Faroese: ikki
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ikkje; (dialectal) ikki, ikkj, itj
- Old Swedish: ikke
- Swedish: icke
- Danish: ikke
- Norwegian Bokmål: ikke
- → North Frisian: ek
Determiner edit
ekki
References edit
- “ekki”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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