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hrista.

to shake

6 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈr̥ɪsta]
  1. to shake

    weak
    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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