heita

Interjection

 * 1)  Greeting, hello; hi

Etymology 1
From.

Verb

 * 1) to heat

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) (kvæði) to beg, to ask
 * 2)  to promise

Verb

 * 1)  to call

Etymology
From, from.

Pronunciation




Verb

 * 1) to be called, to be named
 * 2) * Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)
 * Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.
 * I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
 * Ég heiti Baldur.
 * My name is Baldur.
 * 1) to promise

Etymology 1
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  to be called or named; have a name

Etymology 2
Related to or derived from the adjective. Ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1)  to heat

Etymology 3
Partly from and partly from.

Verb

 * 1)  to threaten, scare

Etymology 4
From and.

Etymology
From, from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to call
 * 2)  to be called, to be named
 * 3)  to promise
 * 1)  to promise

Conjugation
In the sense of being called something, bearing a particular name, the inflectional endings in the present tense singular indicative, follow a weak inflection pattern, and not the strong one—thus the example sentence above is not ek *heit Ásgerðr. This is a fossil of the old Germanic passive, which was productive in Gothic and presumably also Proto-Norse.

For all other senses of the word, all inflectional endings are as expected.