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From Old Norse synja.

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synja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative synjaði, supine synjað)

  1. to refuse

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synja

  1. to deny
    sannaði annarr, en annarr synjaði
    one confessed, but the other denied
  2. (transitive, with genitive) to deny (a charge)
  3. (ditransitive, with dative and genitive) to refuse, deny (someone something)
    Hana elskuðu margir ok hon synjaði fám síns vilja
    Many loved her, and she denied few their will

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  • Icelandic: synja

References edit

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