eisa
See also: Eisa and EISA
English
Etymology
Okinawan エイサー
Noun
eisa (uncountable)
- A form of Okinawan folk dance.
Anagrams
- EAIs, EASI, ESIA, ISEA, Isea, saie
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeiːsa/
- Rhymes: -eiːsa
Noun
eisa f (genitive singular eisu, nominative plural eisur)
- embers
Declension
declension of eisa
| f-w1 | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | eisa | eisan | eisur | eisurnar |
| accusative | eisu | eisuna | eisur | eisurnar |
| dative | eisu | eisunni | eisum | eisunum |
| genitive | eisu | eisunnar | eisa | eisanna |
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aidsǭ, *aisǭ, from *aidaz (“fire, pyre”).
Noun
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
Declension of eisa (weak ōn-stem)
| feminine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | eisa | eisan | eisur | eisurnar |
| accusative | eisu | eisuna | eisur | eisurnar |
| dative | eisu | eisunni | eisum | eisunum |
| genitive | eisu | eisunnar | eisna | eisnanna |
Synonyms
- (embers): eimyrja
Descendants
- Icelandic: eisa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eisa, eise; (dialectal) ese, hese
- → Norwegian Bokmål: eise
- Swedish: (dialectal) ajsa
- → Scots: aes, es, aze
References
- “eisa1”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN