orma

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔrma/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrma

Noun

orma

  1. accusative plural of ormur
  2. genitive plural of ormur

Italian

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Ancient Greek through a Vulgar Latin root *orma. Compare Romanian urmă, Istriot urma, cf. also Venetian usma and Friulian olme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈor.ma/

Noun

orma f (plural orme)

  1. footprint
    Synonyms: impronta, pedata, pesta
  2. track, spoor
  3. trace, mark
    Synonym: traccia

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Swedish

Etymology

From orm + -a

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʊrma/

Verb

orma (present ormar, preterite ormade, supine ormat, imperative orma)

  1. to move in a way that reminds the movement of a snake; to slither, to snake
    Men min bebis har legat mellan sina föräldrar på vår madrass och han har aldrig använt kudde nånsin (eftersom han ormar iväg från den) och täcke sparkar han alltid av sig.
    But my baby has been lying between his parents on our mattress and he's never ever used the pillow (because he snakes off it) and he always kicks off the quilt.

Conjugation

Usage notes

Mostly used with iväg (away, off to).

References

  • “The open lexical infrastructure of Språkbanken”, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul: ELRA, 2012
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