etja

From Old Norse etja, from Proto-Germanic *atjaną, from Pre-Germanic *h₃odéyeti, causative of Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to hate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːtja/

  Rhymes: -ɛːtja

etja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative atti, supine att)

1. (transitive, with dative) to incite, provoke, egg on

• æsa
• espa
• spana
• eggja

From Proto-Germanic *atjaną, from Pre-Germanic *h₃odéyeti, causative of Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to hate”).

etja

1. (transitive, with dative) to incite, egg (goad) on to fight

   etja hestum

   to make horses fight

   etja saman manndrápum

   to incite two parties to manslaughter

2. (transitive, with accusative) to exhort

   etja til þolinmœði

   to exhort one to patience

3. (transitive, with dative) to put forth

   hann etr fram skallanum

   he exposes his bare skull (to the blows)

4. etja ráðum, hvárt ..., to consider, if …;
5. to fight against

   etja við afls-mun (liðsmun), to fight against odds;

6. (reflexive, with dative), to contend with one;

   ef menn etjast vitnum á

   if men contend (plead) with witnesses

• Icelandic: etja

From Proto-Germanic *atjaną, from *etaną + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

etja

1. (transitive, with dative) to cause to be eaten

   etja heyvi, heyjum

   to feed cattle upon hay

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