efja
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse efja, from Proto-Germanic *abjǭ (“ebb”). Cognate with English ebb.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
efja f (genitive singular efju, nominative plural efjur)
Declension edit
declension of efja
Synonyms edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *abjǭ, itself derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“from, off, away”).
Noun edit
efja f
Declension edit
Declension of efja (weak jōn-stem)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: efja
- Faroese: evja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: evje
- Norwegian: ave m (dialectal)
- Old Swedish: æfia
- Swedish: ävja
References edit
- “efja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press