tefla

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse tefla.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tefla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative tefldi, supine teflt)

  1. to play a board game
    1. specifically, to play chess

Conjugation

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Presumably from tafl (board). Akin to Old English tæflan, tæflian. Ultimately from Latin tabula (table, board).

Verb

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tefla (singular past indicative tefldi, plural past indicative tefldu, past participle tefldr)

  1. to play at tables, chess or draughts

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Faroese: telva
  • Icelandic: tefla
  • Swedish: tävla

References

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