vampyr

See also: Vampyr and vampýr

English

Noun

vampyr (plural vampyrs)

1. (archaic or fantasy) Alternative form of vampire (“undead creature”)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vampyːr/, [ʋɑmˈpʰyɐ̯ˀ]

Noun

vampyr c (singular definite vampyren, plural indefinite vampyrer)

1. vampire
2. vampire bat (Desmodontinae)

Inflection

Declension of vampyr

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vampyr	vampyren	vampyrer	vampyrerne
genitive	vampyrs	vampyrens	vampyrers	vampyrernes

Descendants

• → Greenlandic: vampyri
• → Icelandic: vampíra

See also

• vampyr on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

vampyr

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑmˈpyːr/

Noun

vampyr m (definite singular vampyren, indefinite plural vampyrer, definite plural vampyrene)

1. vampire

References

“vampyr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑmˈpyːr/

Noun

vampyr m (definite singular vampyren, indefinite plural vampyrar, definite plural vampyrane)

1. vampire

References

“vampyr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vamˈpyːr/
• Rhymes: -yːr

Noun

vampyr c

1. a vampire (undead creature)
2. a vampire (vampire bat)

Declension

Declension of vampyr
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	vampyr	vampyren	vampyrer	vampyrerna
Genitive	vampyrs	vampyrens	vampyrers	vampyrernas

References

• vampyr in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vampyr in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vampyr in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)