ekki

See also: ikke, ikkje, and ikki

English

Noun

ekki (uncountable)

  1. The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.

Anagrams

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛʰt͡ʃːɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛʰt͡ʃːɪ

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

  1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

m1s Singular
Indefinite Definite
Nominative ekki ekkin
Accusative ekka ekkan
Dative ekka ekkanum
Genitive ekka ekkans

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛhcɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛhcɪ
  • (as an adverb, unstressed) IPA(key): /ɪc(ː)ɪ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ekki (“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn (“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Adverb

ekki

  1. not
    Ég er ekki Kira!
    I'm not Kira!
    Ég fer ekki í dag vegna þess að ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.
    I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.
  2. don't
    Ekki fara!
    Don't go!
Synonyms
  • (not): ei (dated), eigi (dated)
Derived terms

Pronoun

ekki

  1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nothing
Derived terms
  • koma fyrir ekki (to be to no avail, to come to nothing)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

  1. sob, sobbing
  2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness
Declension
Synonyms
  • (sob): snökt n, ekkasog n

Old Norse

Etymology

From eitt (“one (neuter)”) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Pronoun

ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)

  1. nothing

Adverb

ekki

  1. not

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  • ekki in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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