spyrja

From Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪɹja/

  Rhymes: -ɪɹja

spyrja (third person singular past indicative spurdi, third person plural past indicative spurdu, supine spurt)

1. to ask

   Hví spyrt tú meg?

   Why do you ask me?

Conjugation of spyrja (group v-23)
infinitive	spyrja
supine	spurt
participle (a7)1	spyrjandi	spurdur
	present	past
first singular	spyrji	spurdi
second singular	spyrt	spurdi
third singular	spyr	spurdi
plural	spyrja	spurdu
	imperative
singular	spyr!
plural	spyrið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

• svara

• tosa
• práta
• fortelja

From Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with Old English spyrian, German spüren, Danish spørge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪrja/

  Rhymes: -ɪrja

• IPA^(key): /ˈspʏrja/
• Rhymes: -ʏrja

spyrja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative spurði, supine spurt)

1. to ask

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną.

• IPA^(key): /²spʏrjɑ/

spyrja (present tense spør or spỳr, past tense spurde, past participle spurt)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of spørja (“to ask”)

• “spyrja” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From Proto-Germanic *spurjaną.

spyrja

1. to trace steps or footprints
2. to investigate, to find out
3. to ask
4. to hear, be informed of

• fregna

• Icelandic: spyrja
• Faroese: spyrja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spyrja, spørja; (dialectal) spurja, spær, spår
• Old Swedish: spyria
  • Swedish: spörja
• Old Danish: spyriæ, spørghe, spøriæ
  • Danish: spørge
    • Norwegian Bokmål: spørre (partly from dialectal spørja)

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