# hlaða
## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈl̥aːða/
    Rhymes: -aːða

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”).

#### Verb

hlaða (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hlóð, third-person plural past indicative hlóðu, supine hlaðið)
* to pile, to stack [with dative]
* to load, to lade (a gun, a car, a ship) [with accusative]
* to charge an electronic device [with accusative]
    Ertu búinn að hlaða símann?Did you charge the phone?
    Að hlaða rafgeymi.To charge a battery.
* to build with stones or bricks [with accusative]
    Ég er að hlaða vegg.I am building a wall.
* (impersonal, of snow) to fall
    Það hleður niður snjó.It's snowing heavily.

##### Derived terms

* framhlaðningur
* hlaða niður
* hlaðast
* hlaðast upp (“to pile up”)
* hlaðinn

##### Related terms

* hlaði

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

hlaða f (genitive singular hlöðu, nominative plural hlöður)
* barn

##### Related terms

* hlað

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).

### Verb

hlaða (singular past indicative hlóð, plural past indicative hlóðu, past participle hlaðit)
* to load, to lade [with accusative]
    hlóðu skipit með hveitithey loaded the ship with wheat
* to pile, to stack [with dative]
    kistur hlaðnar af gullichests loaded with gold
* to build something by putting one thing on top of another [with accusative]
* to fell, to lay prostrate [with dative]
    gátu þeir hlaðit honum um síðir ok bundu hannthey finally laid him down and bound him
* to slay [with dative]
    bera vápn á Finnana ok fá hlaðit þeimbear arms against the Finns and slay them
* (intransitive, reflexive) to throng, to crowd
    vér viljum eigi, at fjǫlmenni hlaðist at, er vér erum afklæddirwe don't want anyone thronging to see us naked

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: hlaða
* Faroese: laða
* Norwegian Nynorsk: la, lade, lada
* Elfdalian: leða
* Old Swedish: laþa
** Swedish: ladda
* Danish: lade
** Norwegian Bokmål: lade, la

### Noun

hlaða f (genitive hlǫðu)
* a storehouse, barn; a place in where something is laid, put, or stacked

#### Derived terms

* bygghlaða (“barley barn”)
* heyhlaða (“hey barn”)
* hlaða seglum (“take in sail”)
* hlaðast á mara bóga (“to mount the horses”)
* kornhlaða (“granary”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: hlaða
* Norwegian Nynorsk: løe
* Swedish: lada
* Danish: lade

#### See also

* hlaði

### Noun

hlaða
* accusative singular indefinite of hlaði
* dative singular indefinite of hlaði
* genitive singular indefinite of hlaði
* accusative plural indefinite of hlaði
* genitive plural indefinite of hlaði

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “hlaða”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 268
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hlaða”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 201; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
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* J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on hlaða.