kelda

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse kelda (“a well, a spring”). Cognate with middle High German qual and quil (German Quelle); Danish kilde; Swedish källa (“source of a stream of water”). Confer the English well and Northern English keld (“a spring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʰɛlta/

Noun

kelda f (genitive singular keldu, plural keldur)

1. spring
2. bog, swamp
3. source
4. (anatomy) fontanelle
5. ice hole

Declension

Declension of kelda
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kelda	keldan	keldur	keldurnar
accusative	keldu	kelduna	keldur	keldurnar
dative	keldu	kelduni	keldum	keldunum
genitive	keldu	keldunnar	kelda	keldanna

Synonyms

• (bog): keksi, díki
• (source): heimild

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kelda (“a well, a spring”). Cognate with middle High German qual and quil (German Quelle); Danish kilde; Swedish källa (“source of a stream of water”). Confer the English well and Northern English keld (“a spring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰɛlta/
• Rhymes: -ɛlta

Noun

kelda f (genitive singular keldu, nominative plural keldur)

1. a bog, a stagnant pit in a swampy ground

Declension

declension of kelda

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kelda	keldan	keldur	keldurnar
accusative	keldu	kelduna	keldur	keldurnar
dative	keldu	keldunni	keldum	keldunum
genitive	keldu	keldunnar	keldna	keldnanna

Synonyms

• (a bog): dý, pyttur, fen, veita

Derived terms

Derived terms

• betri er krókur en kelda
• keldudrag
• keldufall
• keldustör

• keldusvín
• ölkelda
• ölkelduvatn
• Kelduhverfi
• Kelduneshreppur

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Old Norse

Etymology

Confer the Danish place name Roskilde and Icelandic Hróarskelda.

Noun

kelda f

1. a well, a spring

Derived terms

• keldulækr (a stream from a well)
• kelduskítr (synonyms myriskýtr; a snipe, a nickname)
• keldusog (the outlet of a spring or well)
• keldusvín (a hedgehog)
• Keldur
• Kelduhverfi
• Keldhverfingar (those from Kelduhverfi)
• krjúpa at keldu (confer the Icelandic vatna lömbum)

References

• “kelda”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press