kvika
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
See kvikur (“rapid, swift”)
Verb edit
kvika (third person singular past indicative kvikaði, third person plural past indicative kvikaðu, supine kvikað)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of kvika (group v-30) | ||
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infinitive | kvika | |
supine | kvikað | |
participle (a6)1 | kvikandi | kvikaður |
present | past | |
first singular | kviki | kvikaði |
second singular | kvikar | kvikaði |
third singular | kvikar | kvikaði |
plural | kvika | kvikaðu |
imperative | ||
singular | kvika! | |
plural | kvikið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
Synonyms edit
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kvika f (genitive singular kviku, nominative plural kvikur)
- quick (flesh under nails, hoofs, etc.)
- (obsolete) spring, fount (place where water emerges from the ground)
- (nautical) swell
- quicksand
- (geology) magma
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
- (spring, fount): lind, uppspretta, uppsprettulind
- (swell): undiralda, gjúga
- (quicksand): kviksyndi, sandbleyta, sandkvika, sandyrja, sandysja, ysja
Verb edit
kvika (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kvikaði, supine kvikað)
- (intransitive) to move, stir (of small movements)
Verb edit
kvika (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hvikaði, supine hvikað)
- (intransitive) to move away, withdraw
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Related to kvik (“quick, lively”).
Alternative forms edit
- kvike (e infinitive)
Verb edit
kvika (present tense kvikar, past tense kvika, past participle kvika, passive infinitive kvikast, present participle kvikande, imperative kvika/kvik)
- (transitive) to liven up, invigorate
- (intransitive) to grow, become augmented
- elva har kvika i natt
- the river has grown by night
- elva har kvika i natt
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse hvika (“to quail, shrink, waver”).
Alternative forms edit
- kvike (e infinitive)
Verb edit
kvika (present tense kvikar, past tense kvika, past participle kvika, passive infinitive kvikast, present participle kvikande, imperative kvika/kvik)
- (intransitive) to shudder
- (intransitive) to be confused
References edit
- “kvika” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Related to kvikr (“alive”).
Noun edit
kvika f
Declension edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “kvika”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press