skunkur

Icelandic

From English skunk, from Abenaki segôgw (“skunk”, literally “he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”).

skunkur m (genitive singular skunks, nominative plural skunkar)

declension of skunkur

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
m-s1	singular		plural
nominative	skunkur	skunkurinn	skunkar	skunkarnir
accusative	skunk	skunkinn	skunka	skunkana
dative	skunki	skunkinum / skunknum	skunkum	skunkunum
genitive	skunks	skunksins	skunka	skunkanna

“skunkur” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

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