vik
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse víkja (“to move, curve, bend”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vik n (genitive singular viks, plural vik)
Declension edit
Declension of vik | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vik | vikið | vik | vikini |
accusative | vik | vikið | vik | vikini |
dative | viki | vikinum | vikum | vikunum |
genitive | viks | viksins | vika | vikanna |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.
Noun edit
vik f or m (definite singular vika or viken, indefinite plural viker, definite plural vikene)
- an inlet (arm of the sea)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
vik
- imperative of vike
References edit
- “vik” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
vik f (definite singular vika, indefinite plural vikar or viker, definite plural vikane or vikene)
- an inlet (arm of the sea)
Etymology 2 edit
From vike.
Noun edit
vik n (definite singular viket, indefinite plural vik, definite plural vika)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
vik
- inflection of vika and vike (strong verbs):
- present tense
- imperative
- imperative of vika and vikja (weak verbs)
References edit
- “vik” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vik c
- (geography) a bay, an inlet, (in the British sense) a creek (a (relatively long and narrow) inlet from the sea or a lake, as might instead and more specifically be called a fjord (“fjord”) if surrounded by cliffs (and substantially long))
- Synonym: (obsolete) baj
- Vi bor längst in i viken
- We live at the far end of the bay/creek
- segla in i viken
- sail into the bay/creek
- simma över viken
- swim across the bay/creek
- en mysig liten vik
- a cozy little bay (might imply a short, "stumpy" but still more or less vik-shaped bay in this case)
- Det bor några vikingar i viken
- There are some Vikings living in the bay/creek (possibly though controversially related)
- a gulf (in the names of some gulfs that are shaped more or less like a vik – the intuition is not normally of huge geographical features otherwise)
Usage notes edit
Might sometimes be a bit fuzzier or reflect conditions with less post-glacial rebound in place names. The description above matches the intuition otherwise.
Declension edit
Declension of vik | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | vik | viken | vikar | vikarna |
Genitive | viks | vikens | vikars | vikarnas |
Derived terms edit
- Bottniska viken (“the Gulf of Bothnia”) (vik-shaped)
- Finska viken (“the Gulf of Finland”) (vik-shaped)
- Persiska viken (“the Persian Gulf”) (more vik-shaped compared to Mexikanska golfen (“the Gulf of Mexico”))
- havsvik (a vik from the sea, specifically)
Related terms edit
See also edit
Verb edit
vik
- imperative of vika
References edit
- vik in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- vik in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- vik in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Zou edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
vik
- (transitive) to launch
References edit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40