skeyti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skeyti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsceiːtɪ/

  Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

Noun

skeyti n (genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)

1. message
2. telegram (more fully símskeyti)
3. (archaic) shaft, missile, projectile

Derived terms

• símskeyti (“telegram”)
• loftskeyti (“wireless telegraph”)
• flöskuskeyti (“message in a bottle”)

Related terms

• viðskeyti (“suffix”) (from skeyta við)

Old Norse

Etymology

From skjóta (“to shoot”).

Noun

skeyti n

1. shaft, missile

Related terms

• skeyta
• skjóta

Descendants

• Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
• Icelandic: skeyti n

References

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