bugt

== Danish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bokt/, [ˈb̥ɔɡ̊d̥] === Etymology 1 === From Middle Low German bocht, from Old Saxon *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”). See also English bight, Icelandic bót (Swedish bukt and German Bucht are also borrowed from Low German). The noun is derived from the verb *beuganą (“to bend”). ==== Noun ==== bugt c (singular definite bugten, plural indefinite bugter) bay, gulf curve ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== bugt imperative of bugte == Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpʏxt/ Rhymes: -ʏxt === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Middle Low German bucht and Danish bugt (which was also borrowed from the Middle Low German word); both from Old Saxon *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. A doublet of the inherited bót. ==== Noun ==== bugt f (genitive singular bugtar, nominative plural bugtir) bend, curve bight (area of sea that curves inland) ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 2 === From bugta (sig) (“to bow”), from Danish bugte (sig) (“to bow”), derived from bugt (“bend, curve”), from Middle Low German bucht (whence Icelandic bugt (1)), from Old Saxon *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. ==== Noun ==== bugt n (genitive singular bugts, no plural) bowing (bending in respect or deference) ===== Declension ===== === References === Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), “bugt”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.) == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Noun === bugt f (definite singular bugti, indefinite plural bugter, definite plural bugterne or bugtene) (pre-1917) alternative form of bukt