þang
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Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse þongull, þang, from Proto-Germanic *þangą, from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to thicken, be solid”), related to Proto-Germanic *þinhaną. Cognate with Swedish tång and Norwegian Bokmål tang.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]þang n (genitive singular þangs, no plural)
Declension
[edit]Declension of þang | ||
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n-s | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | þang | þangið |
accusative | þang | þangið |
dative | þangi | þanginu |
genitive | þangs | þangsins |
Further reading
[edit]- “þang” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1068”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1068
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