rigna

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɪkna/
    Rhymes: -ɪkna

Verb

rigna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rigndi, supine rignt)

  1. (impersonal) to rain

Derived terms

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rignijaną.

Verb

rigna

  1. (impersonal) to rain [intransitive or with dative]
    rignir ― it rains
    rignir blóði ― it rains blood

Conjugation

Conjugation of rigna — impersonal, active (weak class 1)
infinitive rigna
past participle rigndr
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
3rd-person singular rignir rigndi rigni rigndi

Descendants

Most descendants have the vowel of alternative form regna.

  • Danish: regne
  • Faroese: regna, rigna
  • Icelandic: regna, rigna
  • Norwegian Bokmål: regne
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: regna, regne (e-infinitive)
  • Swedish: regna

Further reading

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