bøya

• bøyen

bøya m or f

1. definite feminine singular of bøye (Etymology 2)

• bøye (e- and split infinitives)
• bøygja (obsolete)

From Old Norse beygja, from Proto-Germanic *baugijaną. In the context of grammar, sense 3, it is a semantic loan from Latin dēclīnāre.

• IPA^(key): /²bœʏɑ/

bøya (present tense bøyer, past tense bøygde, supine bøygd or bøygt, past participle bøygd, present participle bøyande, imperative bøy, mediopassive bøyast)

1. (transitive) to bend
2. (reflexive) to bow
3. (transitive, grammar) to inflect
   1. (nouns and adjectives) to decline
   2. (verbs) to conjugate

• boge m (“a bow”)
• bøyast (mediopassive)

• “bøya” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.