syfja

From Old Norse syfja, from Proto-Germanic *sufjōną.

syfja (weak declension: syfjaði – syfjað)

1. (impersonal) to make sleepy, to cause sleepiness in [with accusative] (idiomatically translated as "feel sleepy" with the accusative object as the subject)

   Mig syfjar.

   I feel sleepy.

   (literally, “(It) makes me sleepy.”)

syfja f (genitive singular syfju, no plural)

1. sleepiness

• drungi
• svefndrungi
• svefnhöfgi

• sofa
• svefn
• svæfa

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syfja

1. (impersonal) to make sleepy [with accusative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated as "become sleepy" with the accusative object as the subject)

   Mik syfjar ― I grow sleepy (literally, “[It] makes me sleepy”)

• Icelandic: syfja

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