ugle

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse ugla (owl) (compare Swedish uggla, Icelandic ugla), from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare English owl, Dutch uil, West Frisian ûle, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwô ‘eagle-owl’ (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv ‘horned owl’, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-.

Pronunciation

Noun

ugle c (singular definite uglen, plural indefinite ugler)

  1. owl, Strigiformes
  2. owlet moth, Noctuidae

Inflection

Further reading

Verb

ugle (imperative ugl, infinitive at ugle, present tense ugler, past tense uglede, perfect tense er/har uglet)

  1. ruffle, rumple, tousle (to put into disorder, wrinkle)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Old Norse ugla.

Noun

ugle f or m (definite singular ugla or uglen, indefinite plural ugler, definite plural uglene)

  1. an owl

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse ugla. Akin to English owl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ʊɡlə/, /²ʊɡɽə/

Noun

ugle f (definite singular ugla, indefinite plural ugler, definite plural uglene)

  1. an owl
    Synonym: ule

References

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ugle (Cyrillic spelling угле)

  1. vocative singular of ugao