sýslumaður
Icelandic
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Etymology
editsýsla (“administrative district, county”) + maður (“person”)
Noun
editsýslumaður m (genitive singular sýslumanns, nominative plural sýslumenn)
- county magistrate, in particular the chief official in a type of an administrative district that exists in Iceland and the Faroe Islands (previously also the Nordic countries) known as a sýsla. Similar positions in Anglophone countries are sheriff and county commissioner.
Declension
edit| Declension of sýslumaður | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| maður | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | sýslumaður | sýslumaðurinn | sýslumenn | sýslumennirnir |
| accusative | sýslumann | sýslumanninn | sýslumenn | sýslumennina |
| dative | sýslumanni | sýslumanninum | sýslumönnum | sýslumönnunum |
| genitive | sýslumanns | sýslumannsins | sýslumanna | sýslumannanna |