ögnar

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Cimbrian

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *unkar, from Proto-Germanic *unkeraz (1st person possessive dual). Compare Icelandic okkar. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Determiner

ögnar (plural ögnarn, bon/dar ögnarn) (Sette Comuni)

  1. our
    Dar ögnar éezel isset bonallame.Our donkey eats everything.
    d'ögnarn prüdare un d'ögnarn sbéstareour brothers and sisters
    òone bon ögnarn öobenone of our sheep
  2. ours
    De khua ist ögnar.The cow is ours.

Usage notes

The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:

  • They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
  • Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
    • The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
  • Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
  • Following bon (of) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

Inflection

Inflection of ögnar
masculine feminine neuter plural
ögnardar ögnara ögnares ögnare
These inflections are only used in exclamations.

Synonyms

See also

Possessive determiners
singular plural
1st person main ögnar
2nd person dain ôar
3rd person zain

References

  • “ögnar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Swedish

Verb

ögnar

  1. present indicative of ögna

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