Icelandic-English translations for kveða

• chant
  The football fans chanted insults at the referee.
• compose
  The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
  A church is composed of its members.
  The orator composed his speech over the week prior.
• declaim
  The students declaim twice a week.
• intone
  to intone the church service
• lay
  to lay a book on the table;   to lay a body in the grave
  A shower of rain lays the dust
  lay brick;  lay flooring
• metrical foot
• pronounce
  I hereby pronounce you man and wife
  The doctor pronounced them legally dead
  The judge had pronounced often before, but never in front of such a crowd
• resound
  The street resounded with the noise of the childrens game
  The sound of the brass band resounded through the town
• say
  Please say your name slowly and clearly
  Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?
  He said he would be here tomorrow

Related words

• ákveða
• kveikja á
• eins og að skvetta vatni á gæs