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Where does “kafa” come from?

kafa (Icelandic) comes from Old Norse kafa, from Proto-Indo-European gʷebʰ- — to dive, dive in.

kafa (Icelandic): to dive, to go so deep underwater that one can't...

Definitions

  1. to dive, to go so deep underwater that one can't...

Ancestry of “kafa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norsekafa—
2Proto-Indo-Europeangʷebʰ-to dive, dive in

Words derived from “kafa”

  • kafbátur
  • kafari
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