bugt

• IPA^(key): /bokt/, [ˈb̥ɔɡ̊d̥]

From Middle Low German bocht, from Old Saxon *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”).

See also English bight, Icelandic bót (Swedish bukt and German Bucht are also borrowed from Low German). The noun is derived from the verb *beuganą (“to bend”).

bugt c (singular definite bugten, plural indefinite bugter)

1. bay, gulf
2. curve

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bugt

1. imperative of bugte

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏxt/

  Rhymes: -ʏxt

Borrowed from Middle Low German bucht and Danish bugt (which was also borrowed from the Middle Low German word); both from Old Saxon *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. A doublet of the inherited bót.

bugt f (genitive singular bugtar, nominative plural bugtir)

1. bend, curve
2. bight (area of sea that curves inland)

From bugta (sig) (“to bow”), from Danish bugte (sig) (“to bow”), derived from bugt (“bend, curve”), from Middle Low German bucht (whence Icelandic bugt (1)), from Old Saxon *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz.

bugt n (genitive singular bugts, no plural)

1. bowing (bending in respect or deference)

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “bugt”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

bugt f (definite singular bugti, indefinite plural bugter, definite plural bugterne or bugtene)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of bukt