kippa.
to pull, to jerk, to yank, to snatch
Meaning & usage
to pull, to jerk, to yank, to snatch
Hann kippti peningunum úr hendi hennar.
to cause to take after one's family, to make resemble one's kin [with preceding dative ‘someone’, along with í kynið or í kyn sitt] (idiomatically translated as “take after one's family”, “resemble one's kin”, or “be a chip off the old block”, with the dative object as the logical subject)
Honum kippir í kynið.
Kippir hverjum í kyn sitt.
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”), related to Middle English kippen ("to seize"; > Scots kip (“to jerk; pull; filch”)), Middle Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”).
bunch, sheaf
pack, bundle
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse kippa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist, entwine”). Related to Dutch kiep, German Low German Kiepe, English kipe.
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