eikja

eikja f (definite singular eikja, indefinite plural eikjer or eikjor, definite plural eikjene or eikjone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of eikje
2. definite singular of eikje

• kjeia

From eik (“oak”).

eikja f (genitive eikju)

1. a small ferry
2. a logboat (made of oak)

• Icelandic: eikja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eikja, eikje; (dialectal) eikj, øykj
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: eike
• Swedish: eka; (dialectal) öka
• Danish: ege
  • Norwegian Bokmål: eke

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