samloka

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Icelandic

Etymology

sam- (“co-, syn-”) +‎ loka (“latch, catch, bolt”), apparently referring to the way shellfish "clamp" their shells together.

The "sandwich" sense is due to the resemblance of a sandwich (particularly a submarine sandwich) to various shellfish, especially mussels, with the top and bottom bread slices resembling the shell of a shellfish.

Noun

samloka f (genitive singular samloku, nominative plural samlokur)

  1. sandwich
  2. shellfish

Declension

Declension of samloka (feminine, based on loka)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative samloka samlokan samlokur samlokurnar
accusative samloku samlokuna samlokur samlokurnar
dative samloku samlokunni samlokum samlokunum
genitive samloku samlokunnar samloka, samlokna samlokanna, samloknanna

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