ugle
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse ugla (“owl”) (compare Swedish uggla, Icelandic ugla), from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare English owl, Dutch uil, West Frisian ûle, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwô ‘eagle-owl’ (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv ‘horned owl’, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-.
Pronunciation
Noun
ugle c (singular definite uglen, plural indefinite ugler)
Inflection
Further reading
- ugle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Ugler (sommerfugle) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Verb
ugle (imperative ugl, infinitive at ugle, present tense ugler, past tense uglede, perfect tense er/har uglet)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
ugle f or m (definite singular ugla or uglen, indefinite plural ugler, definite plural uglene)
- an owl
References
- “ugle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse ugla. Akin to English owl.
Pronunciation
Noun
ugle f (definite singular ugla, indefinite plural ugler, definite plural uglene)
- an owl
References
- “ugle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
ugle (Cyrillic spelling угле)
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