See also: skäfä, and şkafa

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (to scratch).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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skafa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative skóf, third-person plural past indicative skófu, supine skafið) alternatively skafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skafaði, supine skafað)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to scrape, to scratch off
  2. (transitive, with accusative) to pare
  3. (impersonal, of snow) to drift

Usage notes

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This verb can either be conjugated strongly or weakly. The strong conjugation is the older form, but in modern speech the weak conjugation is far more common (in particular in the meaning of "to scrape"). The weak declension is most often skafaði in the past tense but occasionally skafði.

Conjugation

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Strong conjugation
Weak conjugation
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Noun

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skafa f (genitive singular sköfu, nominative plural sköfur)

  1. scraper

Declension

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    Declension of skafa
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skafa skafan sköfur sköfurnar
accusative sköfu sköfuna sköfur sköfurnar
dative sköfu sköfunni sköfum sköfunum
genitive sköfu sköfunnar skafa skafanna

Synonyms

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *skabaną.

Verb

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skafa

  1. to scrape with a blunt instrument
  2. to shave so as to make smooth
  3. to shave

Conjugation

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Descendants

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References

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