Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse heygja, from Proto-Germanic *haugijaną.

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heygja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heygði, supine heygt)

  1. to inter in a how, burial mound

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Old Norse edit

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Verb edit

heygja (past participle heygðr)

  1. (transitive) to bury in a how

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Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: heygja

References edit

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