Svalbarð

See also: Svalbard

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse Svalbarð, from svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”), thus roughly meaning “cold shore”. Cognate with Icelandic Svalbarði and Norwegian Svalbard. Probably a learned borrowing through Norwegian, because the original meaning of the Old Norse word is uncertain, but, according to Nansen and Alexander Bugge, may be the same as the modern Svalbard archipelago. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsvalpɛaːɹ/

Proper noun

Svalbarð n

  1. Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean)

Declension

singular
indefinite
nominative Svalbarð
accusative Svalbarð
dative Svalbarði
genitive Svalbarðs

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ R. Hennig (1925) Von rätselhaften Ländern : Versunkene Stätten der Geschichte
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.