hrjóða

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hreuþaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to cut).[1]

Verb

hrjóða (singular past indicative hrauð, plural past indicative hruðu, past participle hroðinn)

  1. to unload
  2. to strip, disable
  3. (impersonal, with dative) to clear away
    mun hroðit myrkvanum
    the fog will have cleared away

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: hrjóða
  • Faroese: rjóða

References

  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “616-17”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 616-17
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