spyrja

From Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪɹja/

  Rhymes: -ɪɹja

spyrja (third person singular past indicative spurdi, third person plural past indicative spurdu, supine spurt)

1. to ask

   Hví spyrt tú meg?

   Why do you ask me?

• svara

• tosa
• práta
• fortelja

• spurja (pronunciation spelling, proscribed)

From Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with Old English spyrian, German spüren, Danish spørge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪrja/

  Rhymes: -ɪrja

• IPA^(key): /ˈspʏrja/
• Rhymes: -ʏrja

spyrja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative spurði, supine spurt)

1. to ask

• It is very common to pronounce spyrja as if written spurja, and this spelling is also common, though proscribed.
• The imperative form spurðu is also particularly common alongside spyrðu. Compare keyptu (of kaupa).

4=j
5=a

• spurn

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “spyrja”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “spyrja” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “spyrja”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

From Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną.

• IPA^(key): /²spʏrjɑ/

spyrja (present tense spør or spỳr, past tense spurde, past participle spurt)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of spørja (“to ask”)

• “spyrja” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From Proto-Germanic *spurjaną.

spyrja

1. to trace steps or footprints
2. to investigate, to find out
3. to ask
4. to hear, be informed of

• fregna

• Icelandic: spyrja
• Faroese: spyrja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spyrja, spørja; (dialectal) spurja, spær, spår
• Old Swedish: spyria
  • Swedish: spörja
• Old Danish: spyriæ, spørghe, spøriæ
  • Danish: spørge
    • Norwegian Bokmål: spørre (partly from dialectal spørja)

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