skammstöfun

Icelandic

Etymology

From the verb skammstafa (“abbreviate”), from skammur (“short”) + stafa (“to spell”).

Noun

skammstöfun f (genitive singular skammstöfunar, nominative plural skammstafanir)

  1. abbreviation

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