stjarna

See also: stjärna

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstjartna/

  Rhymes: -artna

Noun

stjarna f (genitive singular stjörnu, nominative plural stjörnur)

1. (astronomy) a star

Derived terms

• barnastjarna
• fastastjarna
• halastjarna
• pólstjarna
• reikistjarna
• sólstjarna
• sprengistjarna
• stjörnubjartur
• stjörnufælni
• sumarstjarna
• sæstjarna

 

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”). Cognate with Old English steorra, Old Frisian stēra, Old Saxon sterro, Old Dutch sterno, sterro, Old High German sterno, sterro, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō).

Noun

stjarna f (genitive stjǫrnu, plural stjǫrnur)

1. star

Declension

  Declension of stjarna (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stjarna	stjarnan	stjǫrnur	stjǫrnurnar
accusative	stjǫrnu	stjǫrnuna	stjǫrnur	stjǫrnurnar
dative	stjǫrnu	stjǫrnunni	stjǫrnum	stjǫrnunum
genitive	stjǫrnu	stjǫrnunnar	stjarnna	stjarnnanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: stjarna
• Faroese: stjørna
• Norn: sterna
• Norwegian Bokmål: stjerne
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stjerne
• Old Swedish: stiærna
  • Swedish: stjärna
• Old Danish: stiærnæ
  • Danish: stjerne
• Elfdalian: stienna
• Gutnish: stjännå, stjänne
• Scanian: stjærna
• → Middle English: sterne, stern, starne, starn, sterrne, steorrne
  • English: starn (dialectal)
  • Scots: starn

References

• “stjarna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press