þarfa

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þarbōną. Related to þǫrf (“need, necessity”) and þurfa (“to need”). === Verb === þarfa (impersonal) to cause to need [with dative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "need" with the dative object as the subject) ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þarfa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 508; also available at the Internet Archive