heyra

From Old Norse heyra, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheiːra/

  Rhymes: -eiːra

heyra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heyrði, supine heyrt)

1. to hear [intransitive or with accusative]

   Synonym: nema hljóð

   Gekk þér vel að í prófinu? Mér þykir vænt um að heyra það.

   Did you do well on your test? I'm glad to hear it.

2. to listen [intransitive or with accusative]

   Synonym: hlusta

   • Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)

     Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."

     Hark a voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

From Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti. Cognate with Old English hīeran, Old Frisian hera, Old Saxon hōrian, Old High German hōren, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hausjan).

heyra (singular past indicative heyrði, plural past indicative heyrðu, past participle heyrðr)

1. to hear, listen

• Icelandic: heyra
• Faroese: hoyra
• Norn: høra
• Norwegian Nynorsk: høyra; (dialectal) haura
• Elfdalian: ära
• Old Swedish: hø̄ra
  • Swedish: höra
• Scanian: høra
• Old Danish: hø̄ræ
  • Danish: høre
    • Norwegian Bokmål: høre
• Old Gutnish: hoyra
  • Gutnish: håire

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “heyra”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive