skyrta
Appearance
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Vladimir Orel from *skurti. Cognate to Old Norse skyrta, Middle Low German schorte (“shirt”). From the same source like Albanian shkurt (“short”) and shkurte (“shirt”); which was probably borrowed from a Germanic language, although unlikely.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]skyrta f (genitive singular skyrtu, nominative plural skyrtur)
- shirt
- Þetta er gömul skyrta, þú ættir að kaupa nýja.
- That's an old shirt, you should buy a new one.
Declension
[edit]Declension of skyrta (feminine)
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | skyrta | skyrtan | skyrtur | skyrturnar |
accusative | skyrtu | skyrtuna | skyrtur | skyrturnar |
dative | skyrtu | skyrtunni | skyrtum | skyrtunum |
genitive | skyrtu | skyrtunnar | skyrtna, skyrta | skyrtnanna, skyrtanna |
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “skyrta”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 425
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ.
Noun
[edit]skyrta f (genitive skyrtu)
Declension
[edit] Declension of skyrta (weak ōn-stem)
feminine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | skyrta | skyrtan | skyrtur | skyrturnar |
accusative | skyrtu | skyrtuna | skyrtur | skyrturnar |
dative | skyrtu | skyrtunni | skyrtum | skyrtunum |
genitive | skyrtu | skyrtunnar | skyrtna | skyrtnanna |
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: skyrta
- Faroese: skjúrta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: skyrta, skjorte (possibly from Swedish); (dialectal) skjørte, skjurte
- Old Swedish: skiurta, skiorta
- Swedish: skjorta
- Danish: skjorte
- Norwegian Bokmål: skjorte
- → Middle English: skyrte, skyrt, skirt, skirte, skyrtt, skyrthe, scyrt, scyrtte, skyrtte
- → Welsh: sgert
- → Middle Irish: scirta
- Irish: sciorta
References
[edit]- “skyrta”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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- Icelandic 2-syllable words
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪr̥ta
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪr̥ta/2 syllables
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic terms with usage examples
- is:Clothing
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (cut)
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- Old Norse ōn-stem nouns