ekki

ekki (uncountable)

1. The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.
   • 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 52:

     Refurbishment was carried out during a ten-day blockade. It entailed replacing timber elements with ekki hardwood, and more than 300 metal straps or bolts with stainless steel components.

• kike

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʰt͡ʃːɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛʰt͡ʃːɪ

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛhcɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛhcɪ

• (as an adverb, unstressed) IPA^(key): /ɪc(ː)ɪ/

From Old Norse ekki (“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn (“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

ekki

1. not

   Synonyms: (dated) ei, (dated) eigi

   Ég er ekki Alda!

   I'm not Alda!

   Ég fer ekki í dag því ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.

   I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.

2. don't

   Ekki fara!

   Don't go!

ekki

1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nominative/accusative neuter singular of enginn; nothing

• koma fyrir ekki (“to be to no avail, to come to nothing”)

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

2. sob, sobbing

   Synonyms: snökt n, ekkasog n

3. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

From Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i.

ekki

1. two

• etki

From earlier *eittki, *eittgi, equivalent to eitt (“one”) +‎ -gi (“not”), literally “not one”. Originally neuter of engi.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkkɪ/

ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)

1. nothing

ekki

1. not

• eigi
• ei
• ne

• Icelandic: ekki
• Faroese: ikki
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ikkje; (dialectal) ikki, ikkj, itj
• Old Swedish: ikke
  • Swedish: icke
• Danish: ikke
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ikke
• → North Frisian: ek

ekki

1. nominative neuter singular of engi
2. accusative neuter singular of engi

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ekki”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive