Gormur

== Faroese == === Proper noun === Gormur m a male given name ==== Usage notes ==== Patronymics Gormur's son: Gormsson Gormur's daughter: Gormsdóttir ==== Declension ==== == Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔrmʏr/ Rhymes: -ɔrmʏr Homophone: gormur === Etymology 1 === From Old Norse Gormr, a Danish (East Norse) name, perhaps a contracted form of *Goðormr, from goð (“god”) + ormr (“worm, dragon”). Compare also Guttormur. ==== Proper noun ==== Gormur m (proper noun, genitive singular Gorms) (historical) a male given name, the name of a king of Denmark, Gorm the Old ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 2 === From gormur (“mud, sludge; bottomless morass”). ==== Proper noun ==== Gormur m (proper noun, genitive singular Gorms) The name of some bogs in Iceland The name of a shallow muddy pond in Kollsvík in the Westfjords ===== Declension =====