spå
Danish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse spá, from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, cognate with Norwegian, Swedish spå. A variant of *spehōną, which is the source of German spähen (“to spy”) (and, via French, English spy).
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
spå (past tense spåede, past participle spået)
Conjugation Edit
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- “spå” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology Edit
Verb Edit
spå (imperative spå, present tense spår, passive spås, simple past spådde, past participle spådd, present participle spående)
Related terms Edit
References Edit
- “spå” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse spá, from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, *spēhōną. Related to Latin specere (“to see”).
Verb Edit
spå (present tense spår, past tense spådde, past participle spådd or spått, passive infinitive spåast, present participle spåande, imperative spå)
References Edit
- “spå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse spá (“to foretell, prophesy”), from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, *spēhōną (“to observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”).
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
spå (present spår, preterite spådde, supine spått, imperative spå)
- to foretell, to divine; to tell the future and fortune through supernatural means
- (by extension) to predict, to (more or less confidently) guess
- Jag spår att det kommer regna imorgon
- I predict it's going to rain tomorrow
- Hon spåddes en lysande karriär
- She was predicated to have a stellar career
Conjugation Edit
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | spå | spås | ||
Supine | spått | spåtts | ||
Imperative | spå | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | spån | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | spår | spådde | spås | spåddes |
Ind. plural1 | spå | spådde | spås | spåddes |
Subjunctive2 | spå | spådde | spås | spåddes |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | spående | |||
Past participle | spådd | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Synonyms Edit
- (foretell): sia