Icelandic edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Related to hey (hay).

Verb edit

heyja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heyjaði, supine heyjað)

  1. to make hay
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse heyja, from Proto-Germanic *hawjaną, cognate with Old English ġehēgan.

Verb edit

heyja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative háði, supine háð)

  1. (transitive) to wage, hold, conduct, carry out (e.g. a battle, war) [+accusative]

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *hawjaną.

Verb edit

heyja

  1. (transitive) to hold, to conduct [+accusative]
  2. to fight, to wage (battle)

Conjugation edit

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: heyja

References edit

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