hnjósa

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hneusaną, whence also Old High German niosan (German niesen).

Verb

hnjósa (singular past indicative hnaus, plural past indicative hnusu, past participle hnosinn)

to sneeze

Related terms

fnjósa, whence fnysa, fnyse

Descendants

Danish: nyse (Old Danish nysæ, niusæ)
Faroese: njósa
Icelandic: hnjósa (obsolete), hnerra

Norwegian: nyse (Bokmål), nyse (Nynorsk)
Swedish: nysa, njusa (dialectal) (Old Swedish niusa)

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