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fylgja

fylgja

Faroese

Noun

fylgja f (genitive singular fylgju, plural fylgjur)

  1. consequence
  2. companionship
  3. kind of guardian angel, guardian spirit, tutelary entity, which was held to follow each person or family and the relationship being affixed or bound at the process or ceremony of naming.

Declension

Declension of fylgja
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fylgja fylgjan fylgjur fylgjurnar
accusative fylgju fylgjuna fylgjur fylgjurnar
dative fylgju fylgjuni fylgjum fylgjunum
genitive fylgju fylgjunnar fylgja fylgjanna

Verb

fylgja ‎(third person singular past indicative fylgdi, third person plural past indicative fylgt, supine fylgt)

  1. to accompany, to follow

Conjugation

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fylgja, from Proto-Germanic *fulgijaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪlca/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlca

Verb

fylgja ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fylgdi, supine fylgt)

  1. to accompany, follow
  2. to legally belong with
  3. to come bundled with or be part of the benefits or rights that follow something
  4. to follow, abide by (a rule, law, tradition, etc.)
  5. to follow, agree with, support

Conjugation

fylgjast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að fylgjast
supine
(sagnbót) 		fylgst
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		fylgjandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég fylgist við fylgjumst present
(nútíð) 		ég fylgist við fylgjumst
þú fylgist þið fylgist þú fylgist þið fylgist
hann, hún, það fylgist þeir, þær, þau fylgjast hann, hún, það fylgist þeir, þær, þau fylgist
past
(þátíð) 		ég fylgdist við fylgdumst past
(þátíð) 		ég fylgdist við fylgdumst
þú fylgdist þið fylgdust þú fylgdist þið fylgdust
hann, hún, það fylgdist þeir, þær, þau fylgdust hann, hún, það fylgdist þeir, þær, þau fylgdust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		fylgst (þú) fylgist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
fylgstu fylgisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Noun

fylgja f ‎(genitive singular fylgju, nominative plural fylgjur)

  1. (obsolete) company (the act of accompanying, i.e. following, going as someone's companion)
  2. placenta
  3. (folklore) a spirit which follows someone; guardian spirit
  4. (computing, slang) attachment (file sent with an e-mail message)

Declension

Synonyms

  • (company): fylgd
  • (placenta): legkaka, barnsfylgja, fósturfylgja
  • (attachment): viðhengi, fylgiskjal

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse fylgja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʏlja/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

fylgja ‎(present tense fylgjer, past tense fylgde, past participle fylgd/fylgt, passive infinitive fylgjast, present participle fylgjande, imperative fylg)

  1. follow

References

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Common Germanic *fulgjō- "guardian spirit"

Noun

fylgja f

  1. companionship
  2. kind of guardian angel, guardian spirit, tutelary entity, which was held to follow each person or family and the relationship being affixed or bound at the process or ceremony of naming.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *fulgijaną ‎(“to follow”), whence Old English folġian, fylgan (English follow), Old Frisian folgia (West Frisian folgje), Old Saxon fulgon, Dutch volgen, Old High German folgēn (German folgen).

Verb

fylgja

  1. to accompany, to follow

Descendants

References

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

Etymology

From Old Norse fylgja, from Proto-Germanic *fulgijaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪʎtʃa/

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