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dafna

dafna

Icelandic

Verb

dafna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dafnaði, supine dafnað)

  1. to thrive

Conjugation


Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dabaną (to be fitting), cognate with Old English dafenian. Compare Old Armenian դարբին (darbin, smith).

Verb

dafna

  1. to thrive

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

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