skynja

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skynja, from skyn (“sense, perception, understanding”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈscɪnja/
  • Rhymes: -ɪnja

Verb

skynja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skynjaði, supine skynjað)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to sense, to perceive
    Synonym: finna
  2. (transitive, with accusative) to understand, to comprehend
    Synonym: skilja

Conjugation

  • skyn (“intelligence, understanding; sense, perception, awareness”)
  • skynjun (“perception”)
  • skynsemi (“sense, reason”)
  • skynugur (“bright, clever, sensible”)
  • skynvilla (“hallucination”)

Old Norse

Etymology

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Verb

skynja

  1. perceive

Descendants

  • Icelandic: skynja
  • Faroese: skyna
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skjøna, skyna
  • Old Swedish: skynia
  • Danish: skønne, skjønne, skiønne

References

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