Faroese

Hestur - the Horse

Proper noun

Hestur m

1. One of the Faroe Islands, meaning "Horse", compare hestur
2. The only village in the island of Hestur

Declension

Usage notes

• í / úr Hesti - in / from Hestur
• (út) í Hest - (out) to Hestur

Note the usage of út in combination with this certain place name

Synonyms

• Hestoy (coll.)

Faroese

hestur

Noun

hestur m (genitive singular hests, plural hestar)

1. stallion
2. horse in general

Declension

Hypernyms

• ross ‎(“horse”)

Antonyms

• ryssa ‎(“mare”)

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, *hanhistaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛstʏr/

  Rhymes: -ɛstʏr

Noun

hestur m ‎(genitive singular hests, nominative plural hestar)

1. a horse ^syn.
   • Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)

     Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.

     I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

2. (gymnastics) a horse, a pommel horse, a vaulting horse

Declension

See also

• klár

Synonyms

• (horse): ^def. hross, (poetic) drösull, (archaic, poetic) drasill

Usage notes

• The noun hestur is the de facto noun used to determine the case of another noun by substitution.

  Using the noun maður ‎(“a man”) as an example:

  ég þekki mann‎ ― I know a man → ég þekki hest‎ ― I know a horse

  since hest is known to be the accusative form of hestur it may be deduced that mann is in the accusative case as well.

• A commonly taught mnemonic to find the cases of nouns is reciting a set of prepositions followed by an agreeing noun and hestur is often used as an example:

  nominative: hér er hestur‎ ― there is a horse here

  accusative: um hest‎ ― about a horse

  dative: frá hesti‎ ― from a horse

  genitive: til hests‎ ― to a horse

Derived terms

• flóðhestur ‎(“a hippopotamus”)
• kafs hestur
• keppnishestur ‎(“a competition horse”)
• stóðhestur ‎(“a horse intended for stud purposes”)
• trójuhestur
• veðhlaupahestur ‎(“a racehorse”)