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Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse ketta. See also køttur.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ketta f (genitive singular kettu, plural kettur)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ketta | ||||
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f1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ketta | kettan | kettur | ketturnar |
accusative | kettu | kettuna | kettur | ketturnar |
dative | kettu | kettuni | kettum | kettunum |
genitive | kettu | kettunnar | ketta | kettanna |
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Árnason, Kristján (2011) The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese (The Phonology of the World's Languages), Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 116
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *kattijǭ, *kattǭ (“female cat”).
Noun
[edit]ketta f (genitive kettu)
Declension
[edit] Declension of ketta (weak ōn-stem)
Coordinate terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: ketta
- Faroese: ketta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kjette, kjetta
- Norwegian Bokmål: kjette
- Old Swedish: kætta
- Swedish: katta
References
[edit]- “ketta”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese nouns
- Faroese feminine nouns
- fo:Mammals
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- Old Norse ōn-stem nouns
- non:Felids