See also: fägna

Faroese edit

Verb edit

fagna (third person singular past indicative fagnaði, third person plural past indicative fagnað, supine fagnað)

  1. to welcome

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of fagna (group v-30)
infinitive fagna
supine fagnað
participle (a6)1 fagnandi fagnaður
present past
first singular fagni fagnaði
second singular fagnar fagnaði
third singular fagnar fagnaði
plural fagna fagnaðu
imperative
singular fagna!
plural fagnið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse fagna, from Proto-Germanic *faginōną.

Verb edit

fagna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fagnaði, supine fagnað)

  1. (transitive, with dative) to rejoice (over, in something)
  2. (transitive, with dative) to welcome

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *faginōną.

Verb edit

fagna

  1. (transitive, with dative) to rejoice (over, in something)
  2. (transitive, with dative) to welcome

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: fagna
  • Faroese: fagna
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fagna
  • Elfdalian: faingen
  • Swedish: fägna
  • Old Danish: fagne

References edit

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