ugle

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-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːlə/, ,

ugle c (singular definite uglen, plural indefinite ugler)

1. owl, Strigiformes
2. owlet moth, Noctuidae

• ugle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Ugler (sommerfugle) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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)

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Ugler

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From Old Norse ugla.

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

1. an owl

• “ugle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

ugle

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• ugla (pre-2012)
• oggel (Trøndelag dialect)

From Old Norse ugla. Akin to English owl.

• IPA^(key): /²ʊɡlə/, /²ʊɡɽə/

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

1. an owl

   Synonym: ule

• “ugle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

ugle (Cyrillic spelling угле)

1. vocative singular of ugao