hrista.
to shake
Meaning & usage
to shake
Ekki hrista barnið svona!
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse hrista, from Proto-Germanic *hristijaną (“to shake; to braid”). Older theories deriving the term from Proto-Indo-European *krisd- (“to move about, frolic”), and comparing with Sanskrit क्रीड् (krīḍ, “to play”), are semantically tenuous.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.