rigna

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrɪkna/
    Rhymes: -ɪkna

Verb

rigna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rigndi, supine rignt)

  1. (impersonal) to rain

Derived terms

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rignijaną.

Verb

rigna

  1. (impersonal, intransitive or transitive, with dative) to rain
    rignir ― it rains
    rignir blóði ― it rains blood

Conjugation
Conjugation of rigna — impersonal, active (weak class 1)
infinitive rigna
past participle rigndr
indicative present past
3rd-person singular rignir rigndi
subjunctive present past
3rd-person singular rigni rigndi

Descendants

Most descendants have the vowel of alternative form regna.

  • Danish: regne
  • Faroese: regna, rigna
  • Icelandic: regna, rigna
  • Norwegian Bokmål: regne
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: regna, regne
  • Swedish: regna

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