geirfugl

geirfugl

1. indefinite accusative singular of geirfuglur

From Old Norse geirfugl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈceir.fʏkl/

geirfugl m (genitive singular geirfugls, nominative plural geirfuglar)

1. great auk

From Old Norse geirfugl, from geirr (“spear”, referring to the beak) +‎ fugl (“bird”). Cognate with Faroese gorfuglur, geirfuglur, Swedish garfågel and English garefowl.

• IPA^(key): /²jɛɪːrfʊɡl/, (from written form) /²ɡɛɪːr-/
• Note: See pronunciations of -fugl on fugl.

geirfugl m (definite singular geirfuglen, indefinite plural geirfuglar, definite plural geirfuglane)

1. great auk

• geir (“spear”)
• fugl (“bird”)

From geirr (“spear”) +‎ fugl (“bird”).

geirfugl m (genitive geirfugls, plural geirfuglar)

1. great auk
2. gyrfalcon

• (gyrfalcon): geirfalki

• Icelandic: geirfugl
• Faroese: gorfuglur, geirfuglur (AD 1605 recorded as goirfugel)
  • → French: gorfou
• Norwegian Nynorsk: geirfugl
• Swedish: garfågel
• Scottish Gaelic: gearra-bhall, gearbhal, gearbhul
  • English: garefowl, gairfowl, gurfel
• → Danish: gejrfugl (through Faroese or Norwegian)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: geirfugl

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