ígða

See also: igda and igða

Faroese

Etymology

Old Norse igða (“a kind of a small bird[1] or marsh tit[2]”).

In earlier Faroese dictionaries (Færøsk Anthologi 1891, Føroysk-donsk orðabók 1961), the term is only described as a "certain kind of (singing) bird". In 1891 it was marked by a star * as obsolete word,[3] and in 1961 was instead a mejse (“titmouse”)? added.[4] First the Føroysk orðabók 1998 gives it a second — zoological — meaning for the family Fringillidae (finches),[5] not endemic to the Faroes. [6]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʊiːja]
  • Homophones: ía, ýa

Noun

ígða f (genitive singular ígðu, plural ígður)

  1. (kvæði) small bird
  2. finch (Fringillidae)
    tað søgdu honum ígðurnar, uppi sita í lund
    that told him the small birds, sitting up in the trees (kvæði)

Declension

f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ígða ígðan ígður ígðurnar
accusative ígðu ígðuna ígður ígðurnar
dative ígðu ígðuni ígðum ígðunum
genitive ígðu ígðunnar ígða ígðanna

Derived terms

References

  • Føroya Fuglafrøðifelag (Faroe Islands Ornitholigy Society) FaroeNature.org - Fuglanøvn (all Faroese bird names, Latin, Faroese, English, Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish)
  • Notes:
  1. ^ Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ígða”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
  2. ^ Gerhard Köbler (2014) “Altnordisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse dictionary]”, in https://koeblergerhard.de (in German), 4th edition, igða
  3. ^ Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb (1991) [1891] Færøsk Anthologi [Faroese Anthology] (in Danish), 3rd edition, volume 2, Copenhagen [1891], Tórshavn [1991], page 137
  4. ^ M. A Jacobsen, Christian Matras: Føroysk-donsk orðabók. Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag 1961 (p. 189)
  5. ^ Jóhan Hendrik W. Poulsen et al. (1998) “ígða”, in Føroysk orðabók [Faroese Dictionary] (in Faroese), Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag
  6. ^ Don Brandt: More Stamps & Story of the Faroe Islands Tórshavn: Postverk Føroya 2006, vol. 2, p. 291: "After 1990 the word ígða became associated with fringilline birds, some of whom occasionally visit the Faroe Islands but fail to nest, such as the crossbill and chaffinch; the latter bird’s name in Faroese is bókígða.".
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