gegnum
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Icelandic[edit]
Adverb[edit]
gegnum
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
gegnum
- first-person plural active present indicative of gegna
- first-person plural active present subjunctive of gegna
Old English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ġeġnum
Old Norse[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Dative of the adjective gegn (“right, fitting”), derived from the preposition gegn (“against”), from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“towards”).
Preposition[edit]
gegnum
- (with accusative) through
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “gegnum”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press