geyja

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gawjaną (“to bark, yell”), eke from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to gape, yawn”), related to Lithuanian gomurys (“palate”).

Verb

geyja (singular past indicative gó, plural past indicative gó, past participle gáinn)

  1. to bark

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: geyja
  • Faroese: goyggja
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gjø
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gøy
  • Danish: gø

References

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