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erja

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Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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erja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative erjaði, supine erjað)

  1. to plough, to till
    Synonym: plægja

Conjugation

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *arjaną (to plough), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti, with the root *h₂erh₃- (to plough). At the Proto-Germanic stage, it had a strong conjugation.

Verb

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erja

  1. to plough
  2. to scratch, scrape

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: erja
  • Old Swedish: æria

References

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