þegja

From Old Norse þegja, from Proto-Germanic *þagjaną. Cognate with Danish tie, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þahan), Old High German dagēn, Latin taceō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeiːja/

  Rhymes: -eiːja

þegja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þagði, supine þagað)

1. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to be silent, say nothing, hold one’s tongue

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From Proto-Germanic *þagjaną.

þegja

1. to be silent

   Antonym: segja

• þǫgull (“taciturn”)

• Icelandic: þegja
• Faroese: tiga
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tegja, teia; (dialectal) tea, tigja, tiga, teiga, tyjå
• Elfdalian: taja
• Old Swedish: þighia
  • Swedish: tiga
• Old Danish: thighæ
  • Danish: tie
    • Norwegian Bokmål: tie
  • Scanian: tæğa, tiğa
• Gutnish: tige

• þegja in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.