svefnpurka

Icelandic

Etymology

From svefn (“sleep”) + purka (“a miserable or a sleepy person”). The noun purka is a rare word which has quite a few other meanings in Icelandic such as “something of small height” (compare the Danish purk (“a small lad”) or the dialectal Swedish purka (“a short and chubby woman; sow; miser”)).[1]

The oldest written example from the Orðabók Háskólans ("the University Dictionary") of the word svefnpurka is from a Latin-Icelandic dictionary, written and published in 1738 by Jón Árnason ^(is). There the given translation of the Latin word dormitor (from the Latin verb dormiō meaning "I sleep") is "svefnpurka" and "sísofandi". It is possible that Jón had in fact coined this compound himself as a myriad of Icelandic words in that dictionary are of his own concoction.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsvɛpnˌpʰʏr̥ka]

Noun

svefnpurka f (genitive singular svefnpurku, nominative plural svefnpurkur)

a sleepyhead, a lie-a-bed/lieabed, a sluggard

References

Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað merkir orðið purkur hjá svefnpurkunum? (“What does purka mean in svefnpurka?”)

[visinda-1] Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað merkir orðið purkur hjá svefnpurkunum? (“What does purka mean in svefnpurka?”)

单词	svefnpurka
释义	svefnpurka Icelandic Etymology From svefn (“sleep”) + purka (“a miserable or a sleepy person”). The noun purka is a rare word which has quite a few other meanings in Icelandic such as “something of small height” (compare the Danish purk (“a small lad”) or the dialectal Swedish purka (“a short and chubby woman; sow; miser”)).[1] The oldest written example from the Orðabók Háskólans ("the University Dictionary") of the word svefnpurka is from a Latin-Icelandic dictionary, written and published in 1738 by Jón Árnason ^(is). There the given translation of the Latin word dormitor (from the Latin verb dormiō meaning "I sleep") is "svefnpurka" and "sísofandi". It is possible that Jón had in fact coined this compound himself as a myriad of Icelandic words in that dictionary are of his own concoction.[1] Pronunciation IPA^(key): [ˈsvɛpnˌpʰʏr̥ka] Noun svefnpurka f (genitive singular svefnpurku, nominative plural svefnpurkur) a sleepyhead, a lie-a-bed/lieabed, a sluggard References Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað merkir orðið purkur hjá svefnpurkunum? (“What does purka mean in svefnpurka?”)
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