skeyti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skeyti.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsceiːtɪ/
    Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

Noun

skeyti n (genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)

  1. message
  2. telegram (more fully símskeyti)
  3. (archaic) shaft, missile, projectile

Declension
declension of skeyti
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skeyti skeytið skeyti skeytin
accusative skeyti skeytið skeyti skeytin
dative skeyti skeytinu skeytum skeytunum
genitive skeytis skeytisins skeyta skeytanna

Derived terms
  • símskeyti (“telegram”)
  • loftskeyti (“wireless telegraph”)
  • flöskuskeyti (“message in a bottle”)

Old Norse

Etymology

From skjóta (“to shoot”).

Noun

skeyti n

  1. shaft, missile

Descendants
  • Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
  • Icelandic: skeyti n

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