kúfa.
to heap, to pile high
Meaning & usage
to heap, to pile high
Ég kúfaði diskinn minn af mat.
to cap with clouds [with það ‘dummy subject’ (often omitted) and accusative ‘a mountain’] (idiomatically translated as “be capped with clouds”)
það kúfaði fjöllin.
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse kúfa (“to heap, fill over the brim”), to the same root as Icelandic kúfur, Old Norse *kúfr (“elevation, heap, bulge, round top”), from Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, to Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”). Compare related Old Norse kúfóttr (“convex”), kofi (“chamber, hut”); also likely kafli (“lengthwise round piece”), to Proto-North Germanic *kablô; also English cove, coffin, cup.
a sea snail of the genus Velutina
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