hnjósa

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hneusaną, whence also Old High German niosan (German niesen).

Verb

hnjósa (singular past indicative hnaus, plural past indicative hnusu, past participle hnosinn)

  1. to sneeze

Conjugation

  • fnjósa, whence fnysa, fnyse

Descendants

  • Norwegian: nyse (Bokmål), nyse (Nynorsk)
  • Swedish: nysa, njusa (dialectal) (Old Swedish niusa)

References

  • hnjósa in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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