telgja

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ (talgidai) (third-person past singular), from Proto-Germanic *talgijaną. Related to talga (a cutting, carving), Old English telgor (branch, bough).

Verb

telgja

  1. to carve, to cut (wood or stone or metal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of telgja — active (weak class 1)
infinitive telgja
present participle telgjandi
past participle telgðr
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular telgi telgða telgja telgða
2nd person singular telgir telgðir telgir telgðir
3rd person singular telgir telgði telgi telgði
1st person plural telgjum telgðum telgim telgðim
2nd person plural telgið telgðuð telgið telgðið
3rd person plural telgja telgðu telgi telgði
imperative present
2nd person singular telg, telgi
1st person plural telgjum
2nd person plural telgið
Conjugation of telgja — mediopassive (weak class 1)
infinitive telgjask
present participle telgjandisk
past participle telgzk
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular telgjumk telgðumk telgjumk telgðumk
2nd person singular telgisk telgðisk telgisk telgðisk
3rd person singular telgisk telgðisk telgisk telgðisk
1st person plural telgjumsk telgðumsk telgimsk telgðimsk
2nd person plural telgizk telgðuzk telgizk telgðizk
3rd person plural telgjask telgðusk telgisk telgðisk
imperative present
2nd person singular telgsk, telgisk
1st person plural telgjumsk
2nd person plural telgizk

Descendants

  • Icelandic: telgja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: telgja; (dialectal) tægje
  • Norwegian Bokmål: telgje
  • Old Swedish: tælghia

Further reading

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