kelda

From Old Norse kelda (“a well, a spring”). Cognate with middle High German qual and quil (German Quelle); Danish kilde; Swedish källa (“source of a stream of water”). Confer the English well and Northern English keld (“a spring”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʰɛlta/

kelda f (genitive singular keldu, plural keldur)

1. spring
2. bog, swamp
3. source
4. (anatomy) fontanelle
5. ice hole

• (bog): keksi, díki
• (source): heimild

From Old Norse kelda (“a well, a spring”). Cognate with middle High German qual and quil (German Quelle); Danish kilde; Swedish källa (“source of a stream of water”). Confer the English well and Northern English keld (“a spring”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰɛlta/
• Rhymes: -ɛlta

kelda f (genitive singular keldu, nominative plural keldur)

1. a bog, a stagnant pit in a swampy ground

• (a bog): dý, pyttur, fen, veita

Confer the Danish place name Roskilde and Icelandic Hróarskelda.

kelda f

1. a well, a spring

• keldulækr (a stream from a well)
• kelduskítr (synonyms myriskýtr; a snipe, a nickname)
• keldusog (the outlet of a spring or well)
• keldusvín (a hedgehog)
• Keldur
• Kelduhverfi
• Keldhverfingar (those from Kelduhverfi)
• krjúpa at keldu (confer the Icelandic vatna lömbum)

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