bugt

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpʏxt/
    Rhymes: -ʏxt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German bucht and Danish bugt (which was also borrowed from the Middle Low German word); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. A doublet of the inherited bót.

Noun

bugt f (genitive singular bugtar, nominative plural bugtir)

  1. bend, curve
  2. bight (area of sea that curves inland)
Declension
declension of bugt
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bugt bugtin bugtir bugtirnar
accusative bugt bugtina bugtir bugtirnar
dative bugt bugtinni bugtum bugtunum
genitive bugtar bugtarinnar bugta bugtanna

Etymology 2

From bugta (sig) (“to bow”), from Danish bugte (sig) (“to bow”), derived from bugt (“bend, curve”), from Middle Low German bucht (whence Icelandic bugt (1)), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz.

Noun

bugt n (genitive singular bugts, no plural)

  1. bowing (bending in respect or deference)
Declension
declension of bugt
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative bugt bugtið
accusative bugt bugtið
dative bugti bugtinu
genitive bugts bugtsins

References
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