heima

heima

1. at home

• IPA^(key): /ˈheiːma/

  Rhymes: -eiːma

From Old Norse heima. Cognate with Swedish hemma (“at home”).

heima (not comparable)

1. home, at home

   Hæ pabbi, ertu heima? Ég gleymdi lyklunum mínum.

   Hey dad, are you at home? I forgot my keys.

   Hvar áttu heima?

   Where do you live?

   Hvar ertu? - Heima hjá mér.

   Where are you? - At home.

• heimalærdómur
• heimasími
• heimaverkefni
• heimavinna

• heimskur

• heim

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

heima

1. inflection of heimur:
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural

heima

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by heiman

• IPA^(key): /²hɛɪːma/

From Old Norse heima.

heima

1. (pre-1901 or dialectal) alternative form of heime

Calque of English home.

• heime (e-infinitive)

heima (present tense heimar, past tense heima, past participle heima, passive infinitive heimast, present participle heimande, imperative heima/heim)

1. (military, transitive) to home

• heimande våpen

Cognate with Old High German heime (“at home”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

heima

1. at home

• Icelandic: heima
• Faroese: heima
• Norwegian Nynorsk: heime
  • Norwegian Bokmål: heime
• Old Swedish: hemä/hemæ
  • Swedish: hemma
• Old Danish: hemæ, hemmæ
  • Danish: hjemme
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hjemme

heima m

1. genitive plural indefinite of heimr

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “heima”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive