gleyma

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse gleyma (to be merry; to forget), from glaumr (whence Icelandic glaumur).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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gleyma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gleymdi, supine gleymt)

  1. (transitive, with dative) to forget

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From glaumr (merry noise).

Verb

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gleyma

  1. to be merry
  2. to forget

Conjugation

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: gleyma
  • Faroese: gloyma
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gløyme, gløyma
  • Danish: glemme
  • Swedish: glömma
  • Scanian: glimma

References

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