skeyti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skeyti.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsceiːtɪ/
    Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

Noun

skeyti n (genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)

  1. shaft, missile, projectile
  2. message
  3. telegram (more fully símskeyti)
  4. (grammar, in compounds, as verbal noun of skeyta) affix, -fix; morpheme attached to a word stem to form a new word

Declension
declension of skeyti
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skeyti skeytið skeyti skeytin
accusative skeyti skeytið skeyti skeytin
dative skeyti skeytinu skeytum skeytunum
genitive skeytis skeytisins skeyta skeytanna

Derived terms
Derived from grammatical term of word component attached to a stem

Old Norse

Etymology

From skjóta (“to shoot”).

Noun

skeyti n

  1. shaft, missile

Descendants
  • Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
  • Icelandic: skeyti n

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