heima

Faroese

Adverb

heima

1. at home

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheiːma/

  Rhymes: -eiːma

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

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.

Derived terms

• heimalærdómur
• heimasími
• heimaverkefni
• heimavinna

Related terms

• heimskur

See also

• heim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

heima

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

heima

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by heiman

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hɛɪːma/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse heima.

Adverb

heima

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

Etymology 2

Calque of English home.

Alternative forms

• heime (e-infinitive)

Verb

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

1. (military, transitive) to home

Related terms

• heimande våpen

Old Norse

Etymology

The adverb seems to be a petrified locative of the noun heima. Although this noun is a neuter n-stem, it is likely cognate with Old High German heima, Old Saxon hēme, and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍉𐍃 (haimōs, nom./acc. plural), all feminine ō-stems.

Compare similar old locatives Old High German heime, heimi and Old Saxon hēme (“at home”), which however are from the related Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Adverb

heima

1. at home

Descendants

• 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

Noun

heima n (genitive heima)

1. house, home

   at heima mínu ― at/to my home

   til þíns heima ― to your home

   eiga heima (einhvers staðar) ― to live (somewhere)

Declension

Declension of heima (weak an-stem, indefinite singular only)

neuter	singular
	indefinite
nominative	heima
accusative	heima
dative	heima
genitive	heima

Noun

heima m

1. accusative/genitive plural indefinite of heimr

Further reading

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