Svalbarð

See also: Svalbard

Faroese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse Svalbarð, from svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”), thus roughly meaning “cold shore”. Cognate with Icelandic Svalbarði and Norwegian Svalbard. Probably a learned borrowing through Norwegian, because the original meaning of the Old Norse word is uncertain, but, according to Nansen and Alexander Bugge, may be the same as the modern Svalbard archipelago. ^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈsvalpɛaːɹ/

Proper noun edit

Svalbarð n

Svalbard (an archipelago in the far north of Norway)

Declension edit

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Svalbarð
Accusative	Svalbarð
Dative	Svalbarði
Genitive	Svalbarðs

Derived terms edit

svalbarðsgás (“pink-footed goose”)

References edit

^ R. Hennig (1925) Von rätselhaften Ländern : Versunkene Stätten der Geschichte

[1] R. Hennig (1925) Von rätselhaften Ländern : Versunkene Stätten der Geschichte

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