Icelandic

Proper noun

Orkneyjar f pl

1. the Orkney Islands

Declension

Derived terms

• Orkneyingur
• orkneyskur

Old Norse

Etymology

Adapted from Old Irish, with a suffixed eyjar ‎(“islands”).

Proper noun

Orkneyjar f pl

1. the Orkney Islands

Derived terms

• Orkneyingr
• orkneyskr

Descendants

• English: Orkney, Orkneys, Orkney Islands
• Faroese: Orknoyggjar f pl
• Icelandic: Orkneyjar f pl
• Norwegian: Orknøyene (Bokmål), Orknøyane (Nynorsk) f pl

References

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