geyja

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *gawjaną (“to bark, yell”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, invoke”). === Verb === geyja (singular past indicative gó, plural past indicative gó, past participle gáinn) (intransitive) to bark to bark, scoff at, decry [with dative] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== gá (“barking”) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: geyja Faroese: goyggja Norwegian Bokmål: gjø Norwegian Nynorsk: gøy Danish: gø === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “geyja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1259