standa

From Old Norse standa, from Proto-Germanic *standaną, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstanta/
• Rhymes: -anta

standa (third person singular past indicative stóð, third person plural past indicative stóðu, supine staðið)

1. to stand

• standa í gerð - be under construction

From Old Norse standa. from Proto-Germanic *standaną. Cognate with Faroese standa, English stand, Danish stande, Norwegian Nynorsk standa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstanta/
  • Rhymes: -anta

standa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative stóð, third-person plural past indicative stóðu, supine staðið)

1. (intransitive) to stand (up), to be standing
2. (intransitive) to stand, to be situated
3. (intransitive) to stand, to be valid
   • Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)

     Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."

     A voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

4. (intransitive) to last, to endure
5. (intransitive) to be written somewhere, to say, to read (to indicate in a written form)

   Hvað stendur á skiltinu? ― What does the sign say?

6. (impersonal, subject in dative) to have an erection
7. (mediopassive, object in accusative) to withstand; hold up to

   að standast freistingar ― to resist temptation

   að standast skoðun ― to hold up to scrutiny

• andast

standa

1. inflection of standus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

standā

1. ablative feminine singular of standus

• “standa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• standa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /²stɑndɑ/

standa (present tense stend or stender, past tense sto or stod, past participle stade or stadi, present participle standande, imperative statt)

1. to stand; (pre-2012) alternative form of stå

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑndɑ/

standa n

1. definite plural of stand

• stonda

standa

1. to stand

• North Frisian: stun, stuun, stönje
• Saterland Frisian: stounde

From Proto-Germanic *standaną. The verb occurred in two forms within Germanic, but only this form is attested in Old Norse sources. In the east, this form existed side by side with unattested *stá (from which Swedish stå), from Proto-Germanic *stāną. Both ultimately derive from the same Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

standa

1. to stand

• staðna (back-formed from the past participle)

• Icelandic: standa
• Faroese: standa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stande, standa (non-standard since 2012), stå
• Old Swedish: standa
  • Swedish: stånda (poetic), stå
• Old Danish:
  • Danish: stande (poetic), stå
    • Norwegian Bokmål: stå

• “standa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• standa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Old Norse standa, from Proto-Germanic *standaną, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

standa

1. to stand

• Swedish: stå