kjúklingr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *kiukilingaz, *kukkilingaz, from n-stem *keukô ~ *kukkaz (“rooster, chicken”) + *-ilingaz (diminutive). Cognate with North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (“chicken”).[1][2][3]
Noun
editkjúklingr m
Declension
edit Declension of kjúklingr (strong a-stem)
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | kjúklingr | kjúklingrinn | kjúklingar | kjúklingarnir |
| accusative | kjúkling | kjúklinginn | kjúklinga | kjúklingana |
| dative | kjúklingi | kjúklinginum | kjúklingum | kjúklingunum |
| genitive | kjúklings | kjúklingsins | kjúklinga | kjúklinganna |
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: kjúklingur
- Faroese: kjúklingur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kjukling
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kjukling
- Swedish: kyckling
- Danish: kylling
References
edit- ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “kyckling”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary][1] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 380
- ^ Torp, Alf (1919) “Kjukling”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 276
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Küken”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 417