eisa

== English == === Etymology === From Okinawan エイサー. === Noun === eisa (uncountable) A form of Okinawan folk dance. === Anagrams === EAIs, EASI, ESIA, ISEA, Isea, saie == Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈeiːsa/ Rhymes: -eiːsa === Noun === eisa f (genitive singular eisu, nominative plural eisur) embers ==== Declension ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Germanic *aisōną (“to drive violently”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oyseh₂ye-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to move, propel”). Cognate with Latin īra (“anger, rage”). ==== Verb ==== eisa to dash forward, rush ===== Related terms ===== geisa === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *aidsǭ, *aisǭ, from *aidaz (“fire, pyre”). ==== Noun ==== eisa f glowing embers Synonym: eimyrja 1000s, Unknown poem, Atli the Little, quoted in Skáldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson. ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: eisa Norwegian Nynorsk: eisa, eise; (dialectal) ese, hese → Norwegian Bokmål: eise Swedish: (dialectal) ajsa → Scots: aes, es, aze === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “eisa1”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), “eisa”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)