sæng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sang"

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sæing (bed), later sæng.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saiŋk/
    Rhymes: -aiŋk

Noun

sæng f (genitive singular sængur, nominative plural sængur)

  1. bed
  2. duvet, continental quilt

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • banasæng
  • færa á sæng, færa á sængina
  • ganga í eina sæng
  • leggjast á sæng
  • liggja á sæng
  • fiðursæng
  • sænga
  • sængurver
  • undirsæng
  • yfirsæng

Old Norse

Etymology

Unknown. Sometimes compared to (to sow).[1][2]

Noun

sæng f

  1. a late variant of sæing (“bed”)

Descendants

  • Old Danish: sjang
  • Faroese: song
  • Icelandic: sæng
  • Norwegian
  • Old Swedish: siang

References

  1. Language. (1952). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 4
  2. säng”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish), 1937
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