uppvakningur
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Icelandic
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Etymology
[edit]From upp (“up”) and vakna (“to wake up”) + -ingur (“forms verbal nouns”), "one who wakes up", "upwaker". Compare rísa upp frá dauðum (“to rise from the dead”).
Noun
[edit]uppvakningur m (genitive singular uppvaknings, nominative plural uppvakningar)
- a zombie; (a deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of uppvakningur | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m-s1 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | uppvakningur | uppvakningurinn | uppvakningar | uppvakningarnir |
| accusative | uppvakning | uppvakninginn | uppvakninga | uppvakningana |
| dative | uppvakningi | uppvakningnum | uppvakningum | uppvakningunum |
| genitive | uppvaknings | uppvakningsins | uppvakninga | uppvakninganna |