húm
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse húm, from Proto-Germanic *skim- (“to shine-”), which has been compared to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”),[1] but according to the Etymologisch Woordenboek this is extremely unlikely.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]húm n (genitive singular húms, no plural)
- twilight, dusk
- Synonyms: ljósaskipti, rökkur, rökkurró
- Antonyms: dögun, afturelding
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 199
- ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “hom”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
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