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banga
banga
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -auŋka
Verb
banga
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, injure”).
Verb
banga
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- banga in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
Verb
banga (present bangar, preterite bangade, supine bangat, imperative banga)
- (slang, somewhat derogatory) to chicken out; to be too afraid to do some given objective