hvæsa

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxʷaiːsa/
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰvaiːsa/
    Rhymes: -aiːsa

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hvæsa.

Verb

hvæsa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hvæsti, supine hvæst)

  1. to hiss
Conjugation
hvæsa – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að hvæsa
supine sagnbót hvæst
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 hvæsandi
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég hvæsi hvæsti hvæsi hvæsti
þú hvæsir hvæstir hvæsir hvæstir
hann, hún, það hvæsir hvæsti hvæsi hvæsti
plural við hvæsum hvæstum hvæsum hvæstum
þið hvæsið hvæstuð hvæsið hvæstuð
þeir, þær, þau hvæsa hvæstu hvæsi hvæstu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú hvæs (þú), hvæstu
plural þið hvæsið (þið), hvæsiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Etymology 2

Noun

hvæsa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of hvæs

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hwēsijaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes-. Related to Latin queror, Sanskrit श्वास (śvāsá). Cognate with English quarrel, Pashto ساه (sāh, “breath, blow, puff, soul, spirit, essence”), Baluchi ساہ (sáh, “breath, blow, essence”).

Verb

hvæsa

  1. to hiss

Descendants

  • Icelandic: hvæsa
  • Faroese: hvæsa
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvæsa, kvesa; (dialectal) gvæse, væse
  • Elfdalian: węsa
  • Swedish: väsa, (older) hväsa
  • Danish: hvæse
  • → Middle English: whesen
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