sylgja
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sylgja f (genitive singular sylgju, nominative plural sylgjur)
Declension edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
sylgja f (definite singular sylgja, indefinite plural sylgjer or sylgjor, definite plural sylgjene or sylgjone)
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Probably from a Finnic language, from Proto-Finnic *solki.
Noun edit
sylgja f (genitive sylgju)
Declension edit
Declension of sylgja (weak jōn-stem)
feminine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sylgja | sylgjan | sylgjur | sylgjurnar |
accusative | sylgju | sylgjuna | sylgjur | sylgjurnar |
dative | sylgju | sylgjunni | sylgjum | sylgjunum |
genitive | sylgju | sylgjunnar | sylgna | sylgnanna |
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: sylgja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sylgja, sylgje, sylje, sølje; (dialectal) sygje, sygju, sulgje
- Old Swedish: sylghia, sölghia
- Old Danish: sølje, søylje
References edit
- “sylgja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press