syfja

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse syfja, from Proto-Germanic *sufjōną.

Verb

syfja (weak declension: syfjaði – syfjað)

1. (transitive, impersonal) to make sleepy, to cause sleepiness (only used impersonally)

   Mig syfjar.

   I feel sleepy. (lit. Makes me sleepy)

Noun

syfja f

1. sleepiness

Synonyms

• drungi
• svefndrungi
• svefnhöfgi

Related terms

• sofa
• svefn
• svæfa

Old Norse

Etymology

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Verb

syfja

1. (impersonal, transitive with accusative) to make sleepy

   Mik syfjar ― I grow sleepy (literally, “[It] makes me sleepy”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of syfja — impersonal, active (weak class 2)

infinitive	syfja
past participle	syfjaðr
indicative	present	past
3rd-person singular	syfjar	syfjaði
subjunctive	present	past
3rd-person singular	syfir	syfjaði

Descendants

• Icelandic: syfja

References

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