fylking

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse fylking.

Noun

fylking c (singular definite fylkingen, plural indefinite fylkinger)

  1. (obsolete) army arranged for battle; a formation
    • 1839, Kongelige Nordiske oldskriftselskab (Copenhagen, Denmark), Historiske Fortællinger om Islændernes Færd hjemme og ude, page 177
      Thorfinn, som bar Mærket, veg da tilbage til den tættere Del af Fylkingen, men ogsaa dem anfaldt Adils, saa det kom atter til en haard Kamp, og Skotterne, som havde fældet Høvdingen, raabte Sejersraab.
      Thorfinn, who carried the mark, then went back to the denser part of the formation, but these too did Adils attack, so it once more came to a hard battle, and the Scots, who had felled the chief, uttered yells of victory.
    • 1855, Niels Matthias Petersen, Danmarks Historie i Hedenold, page 316:
      Fylkingens Dele fik Navn efter Legemet, da den kunde sammenlignes med et Menneskes Liv med udbredte Arme; Fronten kaldtes nemlig Brystet (brjóst fylkingar), og her stod Høvdingen med sine tappreste Mænd og Mærket, fremmerst i Fylkingen (fremstr i brjóstinu); Fløjene kaldtes Arme (armr fylkingar).
      The parts of the formation were named after the body, as it could be likened to the body of a human with spread arms; the front was called the chest (brjóst fylkingar), and here stood the chief with his bravest men and the mark, at the front of the formation (fremstr i brjóstinu); the wings were called arms (armr fylkingar).

Declension

Declension of fylking
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fylking fylkingen fylkinger fylkingerne
genitive fylkings fylkingens fylkingers fylkingernes

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

fylking f (genitive singular fylkingar, nominative plural fylkingar)

  1. army formation, legion
  2. crowd
  3. (biology, taxonomy) phylum

Declension

declension of fylking
f-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fylking fylkingin fylkingar fylkingarnar
accusative fylkingu fylkinguna fylkingar fylkingarnar
dative fylkingu fylkingunni fylkingum fylkingunum
genitive fylkingar fylkingarinnar fylkinga fylkinganna

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fylking of the verb fylkja, from fylki, from Proto-Germanic *fulkiją.

Pronunciation

Noun

fylking f (definite singular fylkinga, indefinite plural fylkingar, definite plural fylkingane)

  1. army formation, legion
  2. crowd, party
    Ei politisk fylking ― A political party

Derived terms

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