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hnjósa

hnjósa

Old Norse

Verb

hnjósa ‎(singular past indicative hnaus, plural past indicative hnusu, past participle hnosinn)

to sneeze

Related terms

fnjósa, whence fnysa, fnyse

Descendants

Danish: nyse (Old Danish nysæ, niusæ)
Faroese: njósa
Icelandic: hnjósa (obsolete), hnerra

Norwegian: nyse (Bokmål), nyse (Nynorsk)
Swedish: nysa, njusa (dialectal) (Old Swedish niusa)