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sauma.

to sew

5 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈsœiːma]

  1. to sew

    weak
    Ég hef saumað eina peysu sem amma hjálpaði mér við.

  2. to suture, stitch

    weak
    Slisið var skelfilegt og þurfti að sauma 34 spor í telpuna.
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse sauma. Equivalent to saumur m (“seam”) + -a (denominal suffix). Cognate with Faroese seyma, Norwegian Nynorsk sauma. Compare also seyma (“to nail, seam”), an older formation which it partly replaced.

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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.