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vindauga

vindauga

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

vindauga n (definite singular vindauga, indefinite plural vindaugo, definite plural vindaugo)

  1. window
  2. definite plural of vindauge

Derived terms

  • vindaugsviskar
  • vindaugsglas

References


Old Norse

Etymology

vindr (wind) + auga (eye)

Noun

vindauga n (genitive vindauga, plural vindaugu)

  1. window

Declension

Descendants

  • Norwegian:
  • Old Danish: windugh, windughe, wynwe, wyndwe, vinnw, windi, winni, vinduæ
  • Old Swedish: vindøgha
    • Swedish: (archaic, dialectal) vindöga n

References

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