ráfa

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse ráfa, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (to wander, sway), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (to move to and from, wander).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ráfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ráfaði, supine ráfað)

  1. (intransitive) to wander, to ramble, to roam
    Synonyms: eigra, rangla, reika, flakka, sveima, vafra

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

  • ráf (wandering)

Noun[edit]

ráfa f (genitive singular ráfu, nominative plural ráfur)

  1. wimp, wuss
    Synonyms: rola, aumingi, gauð

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Walter W[illiam] Skeat (1910) “WAVER”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1963, →OCLC.