signa

Learned borrowing from Latin signa, nominative plural of signum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɡnə/

signa

1. plural of signum

• Agins, Gains, Nagis, Siang, gains, ginas, ingas

signa

1. third-person singular present indicative form of signar
2. second-person singular imperative form of signar

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkna/
• Rhymes: -ɪkna

From Old Norse signa.

signa (third person singular past indicative signaði, third person plural past indicative signaðu, supine signað)

1. to drop, sink, collapse, stagger, slump

   signa niður

   drop (down)

2. to be unsafe or shaky

   Hann kendi, hvussu tað signaði undir fótinum.

   He felt that the ground was unsafe/shaky.

3. to be bogged down

   Bilurin signaði niður.

   The car was bogged down.

From Old Norse signa, from Latin signō.

signa (third person singular past indicative signaði, third person plural past indicative signaðu, supine signað)

1. to bless

   signa seg

   to cross oneself

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signa

1. third-person singular past historic of signer

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkna/
• Rhymes: -ɪkna

signa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative signdi, supine signt)

1. used in set phrases

• signa sig (“to cross oneself, to make the sign of the cross”)

• kross

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɡ.na/, [ˈs̠ɪŋnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɲ.ɲa/, [ˈsiɲːä]

signā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of signō

signa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of signum

signa

1. indefinite plural of signum

signa

1. past tense of signe
2. past participle of signe

• signe (e- and split infinitives)

From Old Norse signa, from Latin sīgnō. Doublet of signere.

signa (present tense signar, past tense signa, past participle signa, passive infinitive signast, present participle signande, imperative signa/sign)

1. (transitive) to bless
2. (transitive, Christianity) to make the sign of the cross upon

• “signa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• gnisa, snagi

Probably from siginn, past participle of the verb síga.

signa

1. (intransitive) to sink, slide down

• Faroese: signa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: segne

Ultimately from Latin sīgnō.[1]

signa

1. (transitive) to bless
2. (transitive, Christianity) to sign with the sign of the cross
3. (transitive, Paganism) to mark with the sign of Thor's hammer
4. (transitive, Paganism) to dedicate to a god

• Faroese: signa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: signa, signe
• Norwegian Bokmål: signe

• “signa (1)”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “signa (2)”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

signa

1. inflection of signar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative