Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *hneusaną, whence also Old High German niosan (German niesen).

Verb

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hnjósa (singular past indicative hnaus, plural past indicative hnusu, past participle hnosinn)

  1. to sneeze

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Danish: nyse (Old Danish nysæ, niusæ)
  • Faroese: njósa
  • Icelandic: hnjósa, hnerra
  • Norwegian: nyse (Bokmål), nyse (Nynorsk)
  • Swedish: nysa, njusa (dialectal) (Old Swedish niusa)

References

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