deyja

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteiːja/
    Rhymes: -eiːja
    Homophones: deigja

Verb

deyja (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative dó, third-person plural past indicative dóu, supine dáið)

  1. (intransitive) to die
    Synonyms: andast, sálast, fá bana, látast, (archaic) deyja burt, sofna svefninum langa, sofna hinsta svefni
    Hún dó úr krabbameini. ― She died of cancer.
    Hundruð manna dóu úr hor. ― Hundreds died of hunger.
    Við munum öll deyja! ― We are all going to die!
    Að deyja úr kulda. ― To die from exposure.
  2. (intransitive) to pass out from drinking
  3. (intransitive, of fire) to go out
    Synonym: slokkna
  4. (intransitive, nautical, of the ocean) to calm down, to subside
    Synonyms: stillast, lygna
  5. (intransitive, of grass) to wither
    Synonyms: falla, sölna

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • deyja af, deyja niður, deyja út (“to calm down”) (of weather or sea)
  • deyja burt (“to die”) (archaic)
  • deyja drottni sínum
  • deyja ekki ráðalaus (“to not to give up easily”)
  • deyja fyrir hendi einhver (“to die at the hands of someone”)
  • deyja niður (“to die in heaps”)
  • deyja úr hor, deyja úr hungri (“to starve to death”)
  • deyja út af (“to die a natural death”), confer lognast út af
  • deyja út (“to become extinct, die out”)
  • deyja úti (“not make it to the barn, left out in times of autumn”) (of hay)

See also

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dawjaną, whence also English die, Old High German touwen.

Verb

deyja (singular past indicative dó, plural past indicative dó, past participle dáinn)

  1. to die
    • 800s, Hávamál, verse 76
      Deyr fé, / deyja frændr,
      deyr sjalfr it sama,
      en orðstírr / deyr aldregi,
      hveim er sér góðan getr.
      Cattle die, / kinsmen die;
      the self dies the same.
      But a word-glory / never dies
      for him, who a good one gets.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • strádeyja (“to die a straw death”)

Descendants

  • Middle English: deyen
  • Icelandic: deyja
  • Faroese: doyggja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: døy, døya
  • Dalecarlian:
    • Mora: däja
    • Elfdalian: däia, däa
  • Old Swedish: dø̄ia
  • Old Danish: dø̄
    • Scanian: dǿja
    • Danish: dø
      • Norwegian Bokmål: dø
  • Old Gutnish: doyia
    • Gutnish: dåie, dåi, doä

References

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