hagga

See also: håggå

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haɡˈɡa/, [hʌɡˈɡʌ]
  • Hyphenation: hag‧ga

Noun

haggá f 

  1. amazement

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 75

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhakːa/
    Rhymes: -akːa

Verb

hagga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative haggaði, supine haggað)

  1. (transitive, governs the dative) to budge
    Honum verður ekki haggað.
    He won't budge. (He won't be budged.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • hagga við
  • haggast

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā (witch). Compare häxa (witch, hag), a German borrowing. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Which language was this borrowed from? No entry in SAOB.

Noun

hagga c

  1. (derogatory) an unpleasant (older) woman; a hag

Declension

Declension of hagga 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hagga haggan haggor haggorna
Genitive haggas haggans haggors haggornas

See also

References

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