visna
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse visna, from Proto-Germanic *wisnon, *wesaną (“to consume”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
visna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative visnaði, supine visnað)
- (intransitive) to wither, to dry up
- Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)
- Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."
- A voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
- Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."
- Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)
Related terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “wizen”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
visna
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
visna (present tense visnar, past tense visna, past participle visna, passive infinitive visnast, present participle visnande, imperative visna/visn)
- alternative form of visne
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From the adjective visinn (“withered”). This derivation could also have taken place at an earlier stage in the linguistic history.
Verb edit
visna
- (intransitive) to wither
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of visna — active (weak class 2)
infinitive | visna | |
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present participle | visnandi | |
past participle | visnaðr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | visna | visnaða |
2nd-person singular | visnar | visnaðir |
3rd-person singular | visnar | visnaði |
1st-person plural | visnum | visnuðum |
2nd-person plural | visnið | visnuðuð |
3rd-person plural | visna | visnuðu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | visna | visnaða |
2nd-person singular | visnir | visnaðir |
3rd-person singular | visni | visnaði |
1st-person plural | visnim | visnaðim |
2nd-person plural | visnið | visnaðið |
3rd-person plural | visni | visnaði |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | visna | |
1st-person plural | visnum | |
2nd-person plural | visnið |
Conjugation of visna — mediopassive (weak class 2)
infinitive | visnask | |
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present participle | visnandisk | |
past participle | visnazk | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | visnumk | visnuðumk |
2nd-person singular | visnask | visnaðisk |
3rd-person singular | visnask | visnaðisk |
1st-person plural | visnumsk | visnuðumsk |
2nd-person plural | visnizk | visnuðuzk |
3rd-person plural | visnask | visnuðusk |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | visnumk | visnuðumk |
2nd-person singular | visnisk | visnaðisk |
3rd-person singular | visnisk | visnaðisk |
1st-person plural | visnimsk | visnaðimsk |
2nd-person plural | visnizk | visnaðizk |
3rd-person plural | visnisk | visnaðisk |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | visnask | |
1st-person plural | visnumsk | |
2nd-person plural | visnizk |
Descendants edit
Adjective edit
visna
- strong feminine accusative singular of visinn
- strong masculine accusative plural of visinn
- weak masculine oblique singular of visinn
- weak feminine nominative singular of visinn
- weak neuter all cases singular of visinn
References edit
- “visna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press