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fjúka

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See also: fjuka

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fjúka, from Proto-Germanic *feukaną.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fjúka (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative fauk, third-person plural past indicative fuku, supine fokið)

  1. (intransitive) to be drifted by the wind; to be blown away
    Það verður hvasst. Hugið að lausamunum sem geta fokið!
    It's going to be windy. Think of loose objects which could blow away!

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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  • fok (drifting)

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *feukaną.

Verb

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fjúka (singular past indicative fauk, plural past indicative fuku, past participle fokinn)

  1. (intransitive) to be drifted (by the wind)
  2. (figuratively) to fly
    Synonym: fljúga

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: fjúka (to be blown away)
  • Faroese: fúka (to drift, dash, be blown away)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fyke, fyka (to fly away)
  • Jamtish: fýke
  • Old Swedish: fiūka, fȳka
    • Swedish: fjuka, fyka (to be drifted by the wind)
  • Scanian: fýga
  • Danish: fyge (to be moved by the wind)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: fyke

References

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