visna

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse visna, from Proto-Germanic *wisnon, *wesaną (“to consume”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈvɪstna] Rhymes: -ɪstna === Verb === visna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative visnaði, supine visnað) (intransitive) to wither, to dry up Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English) ==== Related terms ==== visinn visnaður ==== See also ==== fölna fölur === Further reading === “wizen”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. == Norwegian Bokmål == === Verb === visna past tense of visne supine of visne === Anagrams === anvis, sniva, svina == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Verb === visna (present tense visnar, past tense visna, past participle visna, passive infinitive visnast, present participle visnande, imperative visna/visn) alternative form of visne === Anagrams === sniva, svina == Old Norse == === Etymology === From the adjective visinn (“withered”). This derivation could also have taken place at an earlier stage in the linguistic history. === Verb === visna (intransitive) to wither ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== === Adjective === visna strong feminine accusative singular of visinn strong masculine accusative plural of visinn weak masculine oblique singular of visinn weak feminine nominative singular of visinn weak neuter all cases singular of visinn === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “visna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive