deyja

From Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteiːja/

  Rhymes: -eiːja

  Homophones: deigja

deyja (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative dó, third-person plural past indicative dóu, supine dáið)

1. (intransitive) to die

   Synonyms: andast, sálast, fá bana, látast, (archaic) deyja burt, sofna svefninum langa, sofna hinsta svefni

   Hún dó úr krabbameini. ― She died of cancer.

   Hundruð manna dóu úr hor. ― Hundreds died of hunger.

   Við munum öll deyja! ― We are all going to die!

   Að deyja úr kulda. ― To die from exposure.

2. (intransitive) to pass out from drinking
3. (intransitive, of fire) to go out

   Synonym: slokkna

4. (intransitive, nautical, of the ocean) to calm down, to subside

   Synonyms: stillast, lygna

5. (intransitive, of grass) to wither

   Synonyms: falla, sölna

• kemba ekki hærurnar
• krókna
• ofdrykkja
• vera bráðkvaddur
• verða úti

From Proto-Germanic *dawjaną, whence also English die, Old High German touwen.

deyja (singular past indicative dó, plural past indicative dó, past participle dáinn)

1. to die
   • 800s, Hávamál, verse 76

     Deyr fé, / deyja frændr,
     deyr sjalfr it sama,
     en orðstírr / deyr aldregi,
     hveim er sér góðan getr.

     Cattle die, / kinsmen die;
     the self dies the same.
     But a word-glory / never dies
     for him, who a good one gets.

• strádeyja (“to die a straw death”)

• Middle English: deyen
  • English: die
• Icelandic: deyja
• Faroese: doyggja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: døy, døya
• Dalecarlian:
  • Mora: däja
  • Elfdalian: däia, däa
• Old Swedish: dø̄ia
  • Swedish: dö
• Old Danish: dø̄
  • Scanian: dǿja
  • Danish: dø
    • Norwegian Bokmål: dø
• Old Gutnish: doyia
  • Gutnish: dåie, dåi, doä

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