Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse gleyma (to be merry; to forget), from glaumr (whence Icelandic glaumur).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

gleyma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gleymdi, supine gleymt)

  1. (transitive, with dative) to forget

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From glaumr (merry noise).

Verb edit

gleyma

  1. to be merry
  2. to forget

Conjugation edit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: gleyma
  • Faroese: gloyma
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gløyma
  • Norwegian Bokmål: glømme
  • Danish: glemme
  • Swedish: glömma
  • Scanian: glimma

References edit

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