tegja
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse þegja, from Proto-Germanic *þagjaną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tegja (present tense tegjer, past tense tagde, past participle tagt, imperative teg)
- (pre-1938 or dialectal) alternative form of teia (“to become silent”)
- Synonym: tagna
- 1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog [Norwegian Proverbs], page 212:
- Han skal tegja, some heve inkje til å segja.
- He should keep silent, who has nothing to say.
References edit
- “tegja” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring