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bifur.

a feeling toward something

5 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈpɪːvʏr]
  1. a feeling toward something

    masculine · no-plural
    Hún hef illan bifur á þessu.
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse bifr (“quake, tremble”), to bifa (“to budge”), originally “to quake, to tremble”, from Proto-Germanic *bibāną. Cognate to archaic Swedish bäfver (“quake, tremble”), to bäva (“to quake,to tremble”), aso Danish bævre, German bebern, etc.

noun[ˈpɪːvʏr]
  1. beaver (genus Castor)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Probably borrowed from Danish bæver. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus.

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