belgja

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Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

belgja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative belgdi, supine belgt)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to inflate, to blow up

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Noun[edit]

belgja

  1. indefinite genitive plural of belgur

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *balgijaną, causative of *belganą. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (to swell).

Verb[edit]

belgja

  1. to inflate, puff out

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Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: belgja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: belgja, belga; (dialectal) bægje
  • Old Swedish: bælghia
  • Danish: bælle

References[edit]

  • belgja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press