uggla

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʏkla/
• Rhymes: -ʏkla

  Homophones: ugla, Ugla

Etymology 1

Related to uggi (“(fish) fin”).

Noun

uggla f (genitive singular ugglu, nominative plural ugglur)

1. hook

   Synonym: snagi

   • 1939, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Aðventa, 7th edition, Almenna bókafélagið, published 1990, page 51:

     Benedikt þreif mal sinn af hastasteininum og hengdi hann á ugglu í bæjardyrunum;

     Benedikt snatched his hammer from the horse stone and hung it on a hook in the doorway;

Declension

Declension of uggla (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	uggla	ugglan	ugglur	ugglurnar
accusative	ugglu	uggluna	ugglur	ugglurnar
dative	ugglu	ugglunni	ugglum	ugglunum
genitive	ugglu	ugglunnar	uggla	ugglanna

Etymology 2

Noun

uggla f (genitive singular ugglu, nominative plural ugglur)

1. alternative form of ugla (“owl”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Late Modern Swedish ugla, from Old Swedish uggla, from Old Norse ugla (compare Danish ugle, Icelandic ugla), from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare English owl, Dutch uil, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”) (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-. Feminine in Late Modern Swedish. Akin to English owl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

uggla c

1. owl

   Synonym: uv

Declension

Declension of uggla

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	uggla	ugglas
	definite	ugglan	ugglans
plural	indefinite	ugglor	ugglors
	definite	ugglorna	ugglornas

Derived terms

• fjälluggla
• rugguggla

See also

• ana ugglor i mossen
• fånga uggla
• hoa

Further reading

• uggla in Svensk ordbok.