heima

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Faroese

Adverb

heima

  1. at home

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse heima. Cognate with Swedish hemma (“at home”).

Adverb

heima (not comparable)

  1. home, at home
    Hæ pabbi, ertu heima? Ég gleymdi lyklunum mínum.
    Hey dad, are you at home? I forgot my keys.
    Hvar áttu heima?
    Where do you live?
    Hvar ertu? - Heima hjá mér.
    Where are you? - At home.
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

heima

  1. inflection of heimur:
    1. indefinite accusative plural
    2. indefinite genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

heima

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by heiman

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse heima.

Adverb

heima

  1. (pre-1901 or dialectal) alternative form of heime

Etymology 2

Calque of English home.

Alternative forms

Verb

heima (present tense heimar, past tense heima, past participle heima, passive infinitive heimast, present participle heimande, imperative heima/heim)

  1. (military, transitive) to home

Old Norse

Etymology

Cognate with Old High German heime (“at home”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

heima

  1. at home

Descendants

  • Icelandic: heima
  • Faroese: heima
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: heime
  • Old Swedish: hemä/hemæ
  • Old Danish: hemæ, hemmæ

Noun

heima m

  1. genitive plural indefinite of heimr

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “heima”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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