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From Old Norse greiða (“to arrange; fit out; comb”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną.
greiða (third person singular past indicative greiddi, third person plural past indicative greiddu, supine greitt)
- to straighten out, to order, to arrange, to unknot
- to comb
- to answer, to resolve
- to prepare
- to commit, to deliver, to give over
- greiða frá: to tell, to report, to recount, to explain
Nominalization of the verbal sense in Etymology 2.
greiða f (genitive singular greiðu, nominative plural greiður)
Declension of greiða (feminine)
From Old Norse greiða (“to arrange; fit out; comb”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną.
greiða (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative greiddi, supine greitt)
- to comb
- Synonym: kemba
Þú ættir að greiða hárið á þér. Það er orðið svo úfið.
- You should comb your hair. It’s become really ruffled.
- to pay, to discharge (a debt)
- Synonym: borga
Ég greiddi 1206 krónur fyrir matinn.
- I paid 1206 krónur for the food.
greiða — active voice (germynd)
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að greiða | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
greitt | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
greiðandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég greiði | við greiðum | present (nútíð) |
ég greiði | við greiðum |
þú greiðir | þið greiðið | þú greiðir | þið greiðið | ||
hann, hún, það greiðir | þeir, þær, þau greiða | hann, hún, það greiði | þeir, þær, þau greiði | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég greiddi | við greiddum | past (þátíð) |
ég greiddi | við greiddum |
þú greiddir | þið greidduð | þú greiddir | þið greidduð | ||
hann, hún, það greiddi | þeir, þær, þau greiddu | hann, hún, það greiddi | þeir, þær, þau greiddu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
greið (þú) | greiðið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
greiddu | greiðiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að greiðast | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
greiðst | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
greiðandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég greiðist | við greiðumst | present (nútíð) |
ég greiðist | við greiðumst |
þú greiðist | þið greiðist | þú greiðist | þið greiðist | ||
hann, hún, það greiðist | þeir, þær, þau greiðast | hann, hún, það greiðist | þeir, þær, þau greiðist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég greiddist | við greiddumst | past (þátíð) |
ég greiddist | við greiddumst |
þú greiddist | þið greiddust | þú greiddist | þið greiddust | ||
hann, hún, það greiddist | þeir, þær, þau greiddust | hann, hún, það greiddist | þeir, þær, þau greiddust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
greiðst (þú) | greiðist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
greiðstu | greiðisti * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “greiða”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
From Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to arrange, set in order”).
greiða (singular past indicative greiddi, plural past indicative greiddu, past participle greiddr)
- to unravel, disentangle, arrange
- (with hár) to comb or dress the hair
- to make or get ready
Greiða til vað
- To get ready a fishing line
Greiða til um vápn
- To get the weapons ready
- to speed, to further
- (reflexive) to be successful, get on
Greiddist honum vel
- He got on well
- (literally, “It sped well with him”)
- (reflexive) to be successful, get on
- to pay
- to discharge, perform
- Icelandic: greiða
- Faroese: greiða
- Norwegian: (dialectal) greia, greide
- Swedish: gre, greda
- Danish: grede
- Norwegian Bokmål: gre
- → Middle English: graithen, greithen
- → Old French: greer, greier
- French: gréer
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “greiða”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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- Old Norse class 1 weak long-stem verbs