botn

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔhtn/

Noun

botn m (genitive singular botns, nominative plural botnar)

  1. bottom (lowest part of something)
  2. the innermost part of a landform such as a valley or fjord
  3. the latter half of a verse
  4. buttocks

Declension

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz. Doublet of bunn.

Noun

botn m (definite singular botnen, indefinite plural botner, definite plural botnene)

  1. a cirque (depression in a mountainside formed by glacial erosion)
  2. bottom

Alternative forms

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz. Akin to English bottom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔtn̩/

Noun

botn m (definite singular botnen, indefinite plural botnar, definite plural botnane)

  1. bottom
  2. a cirque (depression in a mountainside formed by glacial erosion)

Derived terms

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

Noun

botn m (genitive singular botns or boz, nominative plural botnar)

  1. bottom

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: botn
  • Faroese: botnur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: botn
    • Norwegian Bokmål: botn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bånn
  • Elfdalian: buottn
  • Old Swedish: butn, botn
  • Old Danish: botn, bon
    • Danish: bund
      • Norwegian Bokmål: bunn
    • Scanian: bónð
  • Gutnish: buttn

References

  • botn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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