Wiktionary

svane

Danish

edit
 
Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia da

Etymology

edit

Probably from Middle Low German swane, from Old Saxon swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”). Alternatively from Old Norse svanr, from the same Germanic source.

Noun

edit

svane c (singular definite svanen, plural indefinite svaner)

  1. (male or female) swan

Inflection

edit
Declension of svane
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative svane svanen svaner svanerne
genitive svanes svanens svaners svanernes

Hyponyms

edit

Norwegian Bokmål

edit
 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

edit

From Old Norse svanr.

Noun

edit

svane f or m (definite singular svana or svanen, indefinite plural svaner, definite plural svanene)

  1. a swan (large waterbird)

Derived terms

edit

References

edit

Norwegian Nynorsk

edit
 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

edit

From Old Norse svanr. Akin to English swan.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

svane f (definite singular svana, indefinite plural svaner, definite plural svanene)

  1. a swan, a bird of the genus Cygnus

Derived terms

edit

References

edit

Serbo-Croatian

edit

Verb

edit

svane

  1. third-person singular present of svanuti
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=svane&oldid=79138010"