English

Noun

ekki ‎(uncountable)

1. The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʰt͡ʃːɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛʰt͡ʃːɪ

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛhcɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛhcɪ

• (as an adverb, unstressed) IPA^(key): /ɪc(ː)ɪ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ekki ‎(“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn ‎(“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Adverb

ekki

1. not

   Ég er ekki Kira!

   I'm not Kira!

   Ég fer ekki í dag vegna þess að ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.

   I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.

2. don't

   Ekki fara!

   Don't go!

Synonyms

• (not): ei (dated), eigi (dated)

Derived terms

• ekki er allt gull sem glóir
• ekki baun
• ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið
• vera ekki við eina fjölina felldur
• peningar vaxa ekki á trjám
• kemba ekki hærurnar

Pronoun

ekki

1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nothing

Derived terms

• koma fyrir ekki (to be to no avail, to come to nothing)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Noun

ekki m ‎(genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

1. sob, sobbing
2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

Synonyms

• (sob): snökt n, ekkasog n

Old Norse

Etymology

From eitt ‎(“one (neuter)”) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Pronoun

ekki ‎(dative einugi, genitive einski)

1. nothing

Adverb

ekki

1. not

Synonyms

• eigi
• ne

References

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