Svalbarð

See also: Svalbard

Faroese

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”), thus roughly meaning “cold shore”. Cognate with Icelandic Svalbarði and Norwegian Svalbard. Probably a learned borrowing through Norwegian, because the original meaning of the Old Norse word is uncertain, but, according to Nansen and Alexander Bugge, may be the same as the modern Svalbard archipelago. [1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsvalpɛaːɹ/

Proper noun

Svalbarð n

  1. Svalbard (an archipelago in the far north of Norway)

Declension
Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Svalbarð
Accusative Svalbarð
Dative Svalbarði
Genitive Svalbarðs

Derived terms
  • svalbarðsgás (“pink-footed goose”)

References
  1. R. Hennig (1925) Von rätselhaften Ländern : Versunkene Stätten der Geschichte
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