nykur
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse nykr, from Proto-Germanic *nikwiz-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *nigʷ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈniːkʊɹ]
- Rhymes: -iːkʊɹ
Noun
nykur m (genitive singular nyks, plural nykar)
- (mythology) a water-demon, the nixie, the nick; (mostly appearing as a grey horse-like creature with inverted hoofs and forward fetlocks that emerges from lakes)
Declension
| Declension of nykur | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m6 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | nykur | nykurin | nykar | nykarnir |
| accusative | nyk | nykin | nykar | nykarnar |
| dative | nyki | nykinum | nykum | nykunum |
| genitive | nyks | nyksins | nyka | nykanna |
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse nykr, cognates with the German Nix, Nixe and Nixie from the Middle High German nickes, from Old High German nihhus (“water-elf, crocodile”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“water-elf, hippopotamus, walrus”) (English nicker) and Swedish Näcken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈnɪːk(ʰ)ʏr]
- Rhymes: -ɪːkʏr
Noun
nykur m (genitive singular nykurs, nominative plural nykrar)
- (mythology) a water-demon, the nixie, the nick; (mostly appearing as a grey horse-like creature with inverted hoofs and forward fetlocks that emerges from lakes)
Declension
declension of nykur
| m-s1 | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | nykur | nykurinn | nykrar | nykrarnir |
| accusative | nykur | nykurinn | nykra | nykrana |
| dative | nykri | nykrinum | nykrum | nykrunum |
| genitive | nykurs | nykursins | nykra | nykranna |
Synonyms
- (nixie): nennir, nóni, vatnaskratti, kumbur, vatnahestur
Derived terms
- nykurbundin (“dual bundle”)
- nykur- (“dual”)
- nykurferill (“dual curve”)
- nykurfærsla (“dual transformation”)
- nykurgrind (“dual lattice”)
- nykurgrunnur (“dual basis”)
- nykurgrúpa (“character group, dual abelian group, dual group”)
- nykurlögmál (“duality, duality principle, principle of duality”)
- nykurnet (“dual graph, medial graph”)
- nykurríki (“dual category, opposite category”)
- nykurrúm (“adjoint space, conjugate space, dual space, dual vector space”)
- nykursetning (“dual theorem”)
- nykurslétta (“dual projective plane”)
- nykurtala (“dual number”)
- nykurvarpslétta (“dual projective plane”)
- nykurvensl (“duality”)
- nykurverkefni (“dual problem”)
- nykurvirki (“dual operator”)
- nykurvíxlgrúpa (“dual abelian group”)
- nykurvörpun (“dual mapping”)