skeyti
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse skeyti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsceiːtɪ/
- Rhymes: -eiːtɪ
Noun
skeyti n (genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)
- shaft, missile, projectile
- message
- telegram (more fully símskeyti)
- (grammar, in compounds, as verbal noun of skeyta) affix, -fix; morpheme attached to a word stem to form a new word
Declension
declension of skeyti
| n-s | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | skeyti | skeytið | skeyti | skeytin |
| accusative | skeyti | skeytið | skeyti | skeytin |
| dative | skeyti | skeytinu | skeytum | skeytunum |
| genitive | skeytis | skeytisins | skeyta | skeytanna |
Derived terms
- flöskuskeyti
Derived from grammatical term of word component attached to a stem
- forskeyti
- innskeyti
- viðskeyti
Old Norse
Etymology
From skjóta (“to shoot”).
Noun
skeyti n
- shaft, missile
Related terms
- skeyta
- skjóta
Descendants
- Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
- Icelandic: skeyti n
References
- skeyti in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press