heima
Faroese edit
Adverb edit
heima
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse heima. Cognate with Swedish hemma (“at home”).
Adverb edit
heima (not comparable)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
heima
- inflection of heimur:
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Adverb edit
heima
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by heiman
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adverb edit
heima
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
- heime (e-infinitive)
Verb edit
heima (present tense heimar, past tense heima, past participle heima, passive infinitive heimast, present participle heimande, imperative heima/heim)
- (military, transitive) to home
Related terms edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Old High German heime (“at home”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adverb edit
heima
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: heima
- Faroese: heima
- Norwegian Nynorsk: heime
- Norwegian Bokmål: heime
- Old Swedish: hemä/hemæ
- Swedish: hemma
- Old Danish: hemæ, hemmæ
Noun edit
heima m
References edit
- “heima”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press