fluga
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Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluga f (genitive singular flugu, plural flugur)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of fluga | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | fluga | flugan | flugur | flugurnar |
| accusative | flugu | fluguna | flugur | flugurnar |
| dative | flugu | fluguni | flugum | flugunum |
| genitive | flugu | flugunnar | fluga | fluganna |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluga f (genitive singular flugu, nominative plural flugur)
- fly (insect)
- (fishing) fly (a lure resembling an insect)
- (badminton) a shuttlecock (a lightweight object used as a ball)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of fluga | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f-w1 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | fluga | flugan | flugur | flugurnar |
| accusative | flugu | fluguna | flugur | flugurnar |
| dative | flugu | flugunni | flugum | flugunum |
| genitive | flugu | flugunnar | flugna | flugnanna |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluga n
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluga m
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluga f (definite singular fluga, indefinite plural fluger or flugor, definite plural flugene or flugone)
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *flugǭ.
Noun
[edit]fluga f
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “fluga”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish flugha, from Old Norse fluga (“fly”), from Proto-Germanic *flugǭ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]fluga c
- a fly (insect)
- Flyg, fula fluga, flyg! Och den fula flugan flög. [a tongue twister]
- Fly [imperative of flyga], ugly fly, fly! And the ugly fly flew.
- (fishing) a fly (lure resembling an insect)
- a bowtie
- a fad, a craze (phenomenon that becomes popular for a short time)
Usage notes
[edit]Not necessarily as negative sounding as fad in (sense 4) (though it sounds the same in "Det är bara en fluga" (It's just a fad) and the like). Craze is often closer in tone, leaning more tongue-in-cheek or the like.
Declension
[edit]Declension of fluga
Derived terms
[edit]- fluga på väggen
- flugfiske
- fluglort
- flugor i trumpeten
- flugskit
- flugsmälla
- husfluga
- inte göra en fluga förnär
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Categories:
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Faroese/uːa
- Faroese lemmas
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- fo:Fishing
- fo:Insects
- Icelandic 2-syllable words
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- Icelandic terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ʏːɣa
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ʏːɣa/2 syllables
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
- is:Fishing
- is:Badminton
- Icelandic non-lemma forms
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- is:Insects
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk weak feminine nouns ending in -a
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- non:Insects
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
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- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Swedish nouns
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- sv:Fishing
- sv:Dipterans