Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

the word appears in the 17. century and does not have related terms in other languages

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

þjappa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þjappaði, supine þjappað)

  1. (transitive, governs the dative) to compress something, to press, to pack something
  2. (technology, transitive, governs the dative) to compress, (to make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits)

Conjugation edit

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