bugt

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏxt/

  Rhymes: -ʏxt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German bucht and Danish bugt (which was also borrowed from the Middle Low German word); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. A doublet of the inherited bót.

Noun

bugt f (genitive singular bugtar, nominative plural bugtir)

1. bend, curve
2. bight (area of sea that curves inland)

Declension

declension of bugt

f-s2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bugt	bugtin	bugtir	bugtirnar
accusative	bugt	bugtina	bugtir	bugtirnar
dative	bugt	bugtinni	bugtum	bugtunum
genitive	bugtar	bugtarinnar	bugta	bugtanna

Etymology 2

From bugta (sig) (“to bow”), from Danish bugte (sig) (“to bow”), derived from bugt (“bend, curve”), from Middle Low German bucht (whence Icelandic bugt (1)), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz.

Noun

bugt n (genitive singular bugts, no plural)

1. bowing (bending in respect or deference)

Declension

declension of bugt

n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	bugt	bugtið
accusative	bugt	bugtið
dative	bugti	bugtinu
genitive	bugts	bugtsins

References

• “bugt” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.