geyja

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gawjaną (“to bark, yell”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, invoke”).

Verb

geyja (singular past indicative gó, plural past indicative gó, past participle gáinn)

1. to bark

Conjugation

infinitive	geyja
present participle	geyjandi
past participle	*gáinn
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	gey	gó
2nd-person singular	geyr	gótt
3rd-person singular	geyr	gó
1st-person plural	geyjum	góm
2nd-person plural	geyið	góð
3rd-person plural	geyja	gó
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	geyja	gœa
2nd-person singular	geyir	gœir
3rd-person singular	geyi	gœi
1st-person plural	geyim	gœim
2nd-person plural	geyið	gœið
3rd-person plural	geyi	gœi
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	gey
1st-person plural	geyjum
2nd-person plural	geyið

Conjugation of geyja — active (strong class 6)

infinitive	geyjask
present participle	geyjandisk
past participle	*gáizk
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	geyjumk	gómk
2nd-person singular	geysk	gózk
3rd-person singular	geysk	gósk
1st-person plural	geyjumsk	gómsk
2nd-person plural	geyizk	gózk
3rd-person plural	geyjask	gósk
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	geyjumk	gœumk
2nd-person singular	geyisk	gœisk
3rd-person singular	geyisk	gœisk
1st-person plural	geyimsk	gœimsk
2nd-person plural	geyizk	gœizk
3rd-person plural	geyisk	gœisk
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	geysk
1st-person plural	geyjumsk
2nd-person plural	geyizk

Conjugation of geyja — mediopassive (strong class 6)

Descendants

• Icelandic: geyja
• Faroese: goyggja
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjø
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gøy
• Danish: gø

References

• “geyja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1259”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1259