þýða
التعريفات والمعاني
== Icelandic ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈθiːða/
Rhymes: -iːða
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Old Norse þýða, from Proto-Germanic *þiudijaną.
==== Verb ====
þýða (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þýddi, supine þýtt)
to translate a language [with accusative]
Synonyms: snúa, snara, útleggja
to mean, to signify
Synonym: merkja
===== Conjugation =====
==== See also ====
þýðing (noun)
benda til
gefa í skyn
=== Etymology 2 ===
From Old Norse þýða (“kindness; affection”).
==== Noun ====
þýða f (genitive singular þýðu, no plural)
gentleness, kindness
===== Declension =====
===== Related terms =====
þýður
== Old Norse ==
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-Germanic *þiudijaną (“engage with”).
=== Verb ===
þýða
to explain, interpret
to signify
==== Conjugation ====
==== Derived terms ====
þýðing
==== Descendants ====
Icelandic: þýða
Faroese: týða
Norwegian Nynorsk: tyda, ty
Elfdalian: tyða
Old Swedish: þȳþa
Swedish: tyda
⇒ Old Swedish: thȳ til, thȳa
Swedish: ty
Old Danish: thȳthæ
Danish: tyde, ty
Norwegian Bokmål: tyde, ty
Gutnish: tyde
Scanian: týða
=== Verb ===
þýða
to win over, attach; make gentle, make friendly
(reflexive) to attach oneself to [with accusative]
==== Conjugation ====
==== Derived terms ====
þýðast til
==== Related terms ====
þýðr
==== Descendants ====
Old Swedish: thȳdha, thȳa, thȳ til (“find refuge at, entrust, rely on”)
Swedish: ty
⇒ Old Swedish: thȳdhas (“keep company with → keep sexual company with”)
⇒ Old Swedish: þȳþilagh, þȳþolagh, tidholag, tidelag (“intercourse → bestiality”, literally “sexual company lay”) (the latter sense from: 'hava þȳþilagh mæþ fǣ', “having intercourse with livestock”)
Swedish: tidelag (“bestiality”)
=== Noun ===
þýða f
attachment, love
==== Declension ====
==== Related terms ====
þýðr
==== Descendants ====
Icelandic: þýða
=== Adjective ===
þýða
inflection of þýðr:
positive degree strong feminine accusative singular
positive degree strong masculine accusative plural
positive degree weak masculine oblique singular
positive degree weak feminine nominative singular
positive degree weak neuter singular
=== Further reading ===
Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þýða”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 523; also available at the Internet Archive