frøkna

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse freknur pl (compare Swedish fräkne, Danish fregne), s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą 'freckle' (compare Norwegian dialect sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- 'to strew, sprinkle'. Cognate to sprøklutur.

Noun

frøkna f (genitive singular frøknu, plural frøknur)

  1. freckle

Declension

f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative frøkna frøknan frøknur frøknurnar
accusative frøknu frøknuna frøknur frøknurnar
dative frøknu frøknuni frøknum frøknunum
genitive frøknu frøknunnar frøkna frøknanna

Derived terms

  • frøknutur
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.