leggja

From Old Norse leggja, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną.

leggja (third person singular past indicative legði, third person plural past indicative løgdu, supine lagt)

1. to lay, to put, to place
2. (about animals) give birth, bear, bring forth, whelp, farrow, etc.

leggja aftrat

• to add

From Old Norse leggja, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛcːa/

  Rhymes: -ɛcːa

leggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lagði, supine lagt)

1. to lay, to put [with accusative]

   Synonym: láta

   Leggðu bókina niður.

   Put the book down.

2. to lay (stones, tiles, a road), to pave [with accusative]

   Synonym: byggja

   Að leggja hellur.

   To pave.

   Að leggja veg.

   To pave a road.

3. to jab, thrust [with accusative]

   Synonym: stinga

4. to park (a vehicle) [intransitive or with dative]

   Synonym: parkera

   Ég kann ekki að leggja.

   I don't know how to park.

   Hvernig gekk að leggja bílnum?

   How did parking the car go?

5. (impersonal) to cause to become covered in ice, to cause to freeze over [with dative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "become covered with ice, freeze over" with the dative object as the subject)

   Tjörnina lagði.

   The lake froze over.

6. (impersonal, of smoke, smell, etc.) to waft (over an area, room, etc.)
7. (impersonal) to cause to waft, to cause to fill [with accusative ‘smoke, a smell, etc.’ and um (+ accusative) ‘(over) an area, room, etc.’] (idiomatically translated as "waft over" or "fill" with the accusative object as the subject)

   Reykinn lagði um húsið.

   The smoke filled the house.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• liggja

• leggje
• legga, legge

From Old Norse leggja (“lay, put, place”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną. Akin to English lay.

• IPA^(key): /²lɛjːɑ/, /²lɛɟ͡ʝːɑ/, /²lɛʝːɑ/

leggja (present tense legg, past tense la, past participle lagt, passive infinitive leggjast, present participle leggjande, imperative legg)

1. lay; put something in a horizontal position

   Eg legg det her.

   I'll put it here.

2. to build, make.
3. to spread out.

leggja att

1. to leave, leave behind

   Eg legg att nokon bøker som eg ikkje treng meir.

   I will leave (behind) some books that I don't need anymore.

• leggja seg

• “leggja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay, place”). Cognate with Old English lecgan, Old Frisian ledza, lega, leia, Old Saxon leggian, Old Dutch leggen, Old High German leggen, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan).

leggja (singular past indicative lagði, plural past indicative lǫgðu, past participle lagðr)

1. to lay, place, put
2. to make, build
3. to impale, pierce, run through

   hann leggr þann með spjóti

   he impales him with a spear

• Icelandic: leggja
• Faroese: leggja
• Norn: legga
• Norwegian Nynorsk: leggja, leggje, legga
• Old Swedish: læggia
  • Swedish: lägga
• Danish: lægge
  • Norwegian Bokmål: legge
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: legge
• Old Gutnish: leggia
  • Gutnish: lägge, lägg', lägga

leggja m

1. genitive plural indefinite of leggr

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