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Orkneyjar

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Orkneyjar.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Orkneyjar f pl (proper noun, plural only, genitive plural Orkneyja)

  1. the Orkney Islands

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Adapted from a Pictish word (perhaps from Proto-Celtic *ɸorkos (pig)), with a suffixed eyjar (islands). Compare Latin Orcades.

Proper noun

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Orkneyjar f pl

  1. the Orkney Islands

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Descendants

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References

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