Icelandic

Noun

skeyti n ‎(genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)

1. shaft, missile, projectile
2. message
3. telegram (more fully símskeyti)
4. (grammar, in compounds, as verbal noun of skeyta) affix, -fix; morpheme attached to a word stem to form a new word

Declension

Derived terms

• flöskuskeyti

Old Norse

Etymology

From skjóta ‎(“to shoot”).

Noun

skeyti n

1. shaft, missile

Descendants

• Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
• Icelandic: skeyti n

Related terms

• skeyta
• skjóta

References

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