telgja

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Norse ᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ (talgidai) (third-person past singular), from Proto-Germanic *talgijaną. Related to talga (“a cutting, carving”), Old English telgor (“branch, bough”). === Verb === telgja to carve, to cut (wood or stone or metal) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: telgja Norwegian Nynorsk: telgja; (dialectal) tægje Norwegian Bokmål: telgje Old Swedish: tælghia Swedish: tälja === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “telgja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive