Eystrasalt

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse it Eystra Salt (“the Eastern Salt”), equivalent to eystra (“in the east”) +‎ salt. Salt is here a poetic term referring to an ocean.

Proper noun

Eystrasalt n (proper noun, genitive singular Eystrasalts)

  1. Baltic Sea (a sea in Northern Europe, an arm of the Atlantic enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden)

Declension

Declension of Eystrasalt (sg-only neuter)
indefinite singular
nominative Eystrasalt
accusative Eystrasalt
dative Eystrasalti
genitive Eystrasalts

Derived terms

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