naust

Danish

Alternative forms

• nøst

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian naust, from Old Norse naust (“boathouse”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nɑʊ̯ˀsd̥]

Noun

naust n (singular definite naustet, plural indefinite naust)

1. (obsolete) a boathouse
   • 1877, Kristian Kålund, Bidrag til en historisk-topografisk Beskrivelse af Island:

     Da Torbjörn noget efter lander, skal en af dennes folk bære våbnene op til naustet, ...

     When somewhat later Torbjörn reaches shore, one of his people is to carry the weapons up to the boathouse, ...

   • 1906, Vor tid:

     ... men udenfor Naustet laa en stor Nordlandsbaad med Masten oppe og endnu en Færing, ...

     ... but outside the boathouse, a large north-land boat with its mast up and another four-rower [a type of boat] lay, ...

Synonyms

• bådhus

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nøyst/, [nœy̯st]
• Rhymes: -øyst

Etymology 1

From Old Norse naust (“boathouse”).

Noun

naust n (genitive singular nausts, nominative plural naust)

1. a boathouse

Synonyms

• bátaskýli

Etymology 2

Verb

naust

1. second-person singular past indicative of njóta

Etymology 3

Verb

naust

1. first-person singular past indicative of njótast
2. second-person singular past indicative of njótast
3. third-person singular past indicative of njótast

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nøst (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Norse naust (“boathouse”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [næʉst]

Noun

naust n (definite singular naustet, indefinite plural naust, definite plural nausta or naustene)

1. a boathouse

Synonyms

• båthus
• sjøbod

References

• “naust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “naust” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nøst (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse naust (“boathouse”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nøʉst]

Noun

naust n (definite singular naustet, indefinite plural naust, definite plural nausta)

1. a boathouse

Synonyms

• båthus
• båtskur
• sjøbu

References

“naust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *naustą.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nɒ̃ũst]

Noun

naust n (genitive nausts, plural naust)

1. a boathouse

Declension

  Declension of naust (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	naust	naustit	naust	naustin
accusative	naust	naustit	naust	naustin
dative	nausti	naustinu	naustum	naustunum
genitive	nausts	naustsins	nausta	naustanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: naust
• Faroese: neyst
• Norwegian: naust; (dialectal) naustr, nøst
  • → Danish: naust, nøst
    • Norwegian Bokmål: naust, nøst
• → Scots: noust, nowst, newst, noost, noast

References

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