igða

See also: igda and ígða

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *egiþǭ, related to eigin (“sprout”).

Noun

igða f

  1. kind of small bird
  2. marsh tit (Parus palustris)

Descendants

  • Faroese: ígða (finches)

Further reading

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