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Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse fleiri, from Proto-Germanic *flaizô, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“full, many”).
Adjective
fleiri
- more, comparative degree of nógvur (many)
- several, quite a lot, many
Usage notes
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse fleiri, from Proto-Germanic *flaizô, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“full, many”).
Adjective
fleiri
- more (instances of something)
Usage notes
- Fleiri is used with countable words:
- fleiri kartöflur ― more potatoes
- fleiri menn ― more men
- With uncountable words, meira should be used instead:
- meiri mat ― more food
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *flaizô. Related to Latin plūs.
Adjective
fleiri (superlative flestr)
- comparative degree of margr
- more, most
Declension
Comparative declension of fleiri
Descendants
References
- “fleiri”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press