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"sofa",
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],
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"etymology_text": "From Old Norse sofa, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną. Unrelated to English sofa.",
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},
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"english": "to go to bed",
"translation": "to go to bed",
"word": "fara að sofa"
},
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"english": "to sleep with, to have sex with",
"translation": "to sleep with, to have sex with",
"word": "sofa hjá"
},
{
"english": "to sleep lightly",
"translation": "to sleep lightly",
"word": "sofa laust"
},
{
"english": "to oversleep",
"translation": "to oversleep",
"word": "sofa yfir sig"
},
{
"english": "sleeping",
"translation": "sleeping",
"word": "sofandi"
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24,
31
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33
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"english": "Don't wake her up, she's sleeping.",
"text": "Ekki vekja hana, hún er sofandi.",
"translation": "Don't wake her up, she's sleeping.",
"type": "example"
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"glosses": [
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],
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"(intransitive) to sleep"
],
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{
"word": "syfja"
}
],
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"ipa": "[ˈsɔːva]"
},
{
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}
],
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"translation": "to sleep with, to have sex with",
"word": "sofa hjá"
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{
"english": "to oversleep",
"translation": "to oversleep",
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"Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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"Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse",
"Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"Pages with entries",
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"text": "Ekki vekja hana, hún er sofandi.",
"translation": "Don't wake her up, she's sleeping.",
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