Noun: sejd
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | sejd |
| Sg. Def. | sejden |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | sejds |
| Sg. Def. | sejdens |
Sample Sentences
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Bönderna sade [...] att hon [har] försökt att [öva] sejd mot dig, konung Inge. (The farmers said that she has tried to use seiðr against you, King Inge.) [1905, Verner von Heidenstam, Folkungaträdet [The Tree of the Folkungs]: Folke Filbyter, Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025:]
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Genom den trollkonst, som kallas sejd, hade han blivit hård mot alla vapen. (Through the form of magic called seiðr, he had become resistant to all weapons.) [1926, Erik Gustaf Geijer, edited by John Landquist, “Den nordiska sagan [The Nordic saga]”, in Samlade skrifter IV [Collected Works IV], P. A. Norstedt & Söners förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025:]
Nouns inflected like sejd
konservatism,
underdånighet,
nöjesjournalistik,
lydnadsplikt,
nedbrytning,
finkänslighet,
glupskhet,
desinficering,
upprabbling,
snörök,
granntyckthet,
seghet,
ostadighet,
uppnåelighet,
sadism,
samsyn,
samtid,
sammet,
sambal,
pubertet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Icelandic seiður or Old Norse seiðr. First attested in 1712. See: Icelandic Nouns '
seiður', Old Norse Nouns '
seiðr'.
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