dyngja

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse dyngja. the word most likely meant at first a hand dug soft sloping hole, but later came to mean what was the content of such hole as they were dug under the outhouse, the word dungeon similarly usually attributed to an unrecorder latin term may well have been borrowed out of germanic frankish. the finnish -tunkio is similarly borrowed meaning a pile of rubbish. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdiɲca/ Rhymes: -iɲca === Noun === dyngja f (genitive singular dyngju, nominative plural dyngjur) heap shield volcano ==== Declension ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Germanic *dungijǭ (“secluded room, bower”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). ==== Noun ==== dyngja f a bower ===== Derived terms ===== dyngjuveggr === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *dungijǭ (“covering, pile”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰengʰ- (“to cover, overcast”). ==== Noun ==== dyngja f a heap, pile ===== Derived terms ===== *mykidyngja ǫskudyngja ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: dyngja Faroese: dyngja (“heap, pile, multitude, crowd”) Norn: dongja (“heap, pile”) Norwegian Bokmål: dynge Norwegian Nynorsk: dyngje (“heap, pile”) Old Swedish: dyngia Swedish: dynga Old Danish: dyngiæ Danish: dynge Gutnish: dyngge, dynggå === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “dyngja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive