skagi

From Old Norse skagi, from Proto-Germanic *skagô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskaːjɪ/

  Rhymes: -aːjɪ

skagi m (genitive singular skaga, nominative plural skagar)

1. peninsula, headland, cape

   Synonym: nes

• skaga

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skagi m (genitive skaga)

1. low cape, ness

• Icelandic: skagi
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skage
• Norwegian Bokmål: skage

skagi

1. inflection of skaga:
   1. first-person singular present indicative active
   2. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive active

• “skagi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 2672, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2672