þjóna

Akin to Danish tjene, German dienen.

• IPA^(key): [ˈθjouːna]

  Rhymes: -ouːna

þjóna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þjónaði, supine þjónað)

1. (transitive, intransitive, governs the dative) to serve someone, to be in somebody's service
   • Judges 2:19

     En er dómarinn andaðist, breyttu þeir að nýju verr en feður þeirra, með því að elta aðra guði til þess að þjóna þeim og falla fram fyrir þeim. Þeir létu eigi af gjörðum sínum né þrjóskubreytni sinni.

     But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshipping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

2. (transitive, intransitive, governs the dative) to serve somebody's table, to wait on somebody ^syn.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• (wait on): ^def. þjóna til borðs

• þjóna engum tilgangi (to serve no purpose)
• þjóna lund sinni (to suit oneself, to fact according to one's impulses)
• þjónn
• þjónusta

• þéna, þjónka

Akin to modern German dienen.

þjóna

1. to serve

• þjónan f (“service, attendance”)
• þjónasta f (“service; eucharist”)

Also descendants of þéna.

• þjóna in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.