gleyma

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse gleyma (to be merry; to forget), from glaumr (whence Icelandic glaumur).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

gleyma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gleymdi, supine gleymt)

  1. (transitive, with dative) to forget

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From glaumr (merry noise).

Verb[edit]

gleyma

  1. to be merry
  2. to forget

Conjugation[edit]

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: gleyma
  • Faroese: gloyma
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gløyma
  • Norwegian Bokmål: glømme
  • Danish: glemme
  • Swedish: glömma
  • Scanian: glimma

References[edit]

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