hestur

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, *hanhistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhɛstʊɹ/ Rhymes: -ɛstʊɹ === Noun === hestur m (genitive singular hests, plural hestar) stallion horse in general ==== Declension ==== ==== Antonyms ==== ryssa (“mare”) ==== Hypernyms ==== ross (“horse”) == Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, *hanhistaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhɛstʏr/ (Northern Iceland, Southern Iceland) IPA(key): [ˈhɛs̠tʏr̥], [ˈhɛs̠tʏɾ̥] === Noun === hestur m (genitive singular hests, nominative plural hestar) horse Synonyms: hross, (poetic) drösull, (archaic, poetic) drasill, (poetic) fákur, (poetic) jór Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic) (gymnastics) horse, pommel horse, vaulting horse ==== Usage notes ==== The noun hestur is the de facto noun used to determine the case of another noun by substitution. Using the noun maður (“a man”) as an example: ég þekki mann ― I know a man → ég þekki hest ― I know a horse since hest is known to be the accusative form of hestur it may be deduced that mann is in the accusative case as well. A commonly taught mnemonic to find the cases of nouns is reciting a set of prepositions followed by an agreeing noun and hestur is often used as an example: nominative: hér er hestur ― there is a horse here accusative: um hest ― about a horse dative: frá hesti ― from a horse genitive: til hests ― to a horse ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== flóðhestur (“a hippopotamus”) keppnishestur (“a competition horse”) stóðhestur (“a horse intended for stud purposes”) trójuhestur veðhlaupahestur (“a racehorse”) ==== See also ==== klár