Svalbarð

See also: Svalbard

Faroese

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsvalpɛaːɹ/

Proper noun

Svalbarð n

1. Svalbard (an archipelago in the far north of Norway)

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Svalbarð
Accusative	Svalbarð
Dative	Svalbarði
Genitive	Svalbarðs

Derived terms

• svalbarðsgás (“pink-footed goose”)