vissa

vissa

1. third-person singular past historic of visser

• visas

From Old Norse vissa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪsːa/
• Rhymes: -ɪsːa

vissa f (genitive singular vissu, no plural)

1. certainty

• fá vissu fyrir einhverju (to receive confirmation of something)
• vita eitthvað með vissu (to know something for certain)

• viss

vissa (present tense vissar, past tense vissa, past participle vissa, passive infinitive vissast, present participle vissande, imperative vissa/viss)

1. Alternative form of visse

vissa

1. definite singular of visse

• sivas, visas

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vissa f (genitive vissu)

1. certain knowledge, certainty

• Icelandic: vissa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: visse

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

vissa

1. inflection of viss:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• visas