hestur
See also: Hestur
Faroese
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hestur
Etymology
From Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, *hanhistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛstʊɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛstʊɹ
Declension
Declension of hestur | ||||
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m6 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hestur | hesturin | hestar | hestarnir |
accusative | hest | hestin | hestar | hestarnar |
dative | hesti | hestinum | hestum | hestunum |
genitive | hests | hestsins | hesta | hestanna |
Antonyms
- ryssa (“mare”)
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, *hanhistaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛstʏr/
- Rhymes: -ɛstʏr
Noun
hestur m (genitive singular hests, nominative plural hestar)
- a horse syn.
- Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)
- Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.
- I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
- Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.
- Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)
- (gymnastics) a horse, a pommel horse, a vaulting horse
Usage notes
- The noun hestur is the de facto noun used to determine the case of another noun by substitution.
- A commonly taught mnemonic to find the cases of nouns is reciting a set of prepositions followed by an agreeing noun and hestur is often used as an example:
- nominative: hér er hestur ― there is a horse here
- accusative: um hest ― about a horse
- dative: frá hesti ― from a horse
- genitive: til hests ― to a horse
- nominative:
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
- flóðhestur (“a hippopotamus”)
- keppnishestur (“a competition horse”)
- stóðhestur (“a horse intended for stud purposes”)
- trójuhestur
- veðhlaupahestur (“a racehorse”)
See also
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