eisa
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
eisa (uncountable)
- A form of Okinawan folk dance.
Anagrams[edit]
Icelandic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
eisa f (genitive singular eisu, nominative plural eisur)
Declension[edit]
declension of eisa
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
eisa
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *aidsǭ, *aisǭ, from *aidaz (“fire, pyre”).
Noun[edit]
eisa f
- glowing embers
- 1000s, Unknown poem, Atli the Little, quoted in Skáldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson.
- Øx rýðsk – eisur vaxa,
allmǫrg – loga hallir –
hús brenna, gim geisar,
góðmennit fellr – blóði.- The axe is reddened with blood, the embers grow,
the halls are engulfed,
all houses are burning, the flame surges,
and the good man falls.
- The axe is reddened with blood, the embers grow,
- 1000s, Unknown poem, Atli the Little, quoted in Skáldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson.
Declension[edit]
Declension of eisa (weak ōn-stem)
Synonyms[edit]
- (embers): eimyrja
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: eisa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eisa, eise; (dialectal) ese, hese
- → Norwegian Bokmål: eise
- Swedish: (dialectal) ajsa
- → Scots: aes, es, aze
References[edit]
- “eisa1”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
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