samloka

== Icelandic == === Etymology === sam- (“co-, syn-”) +‎ loka (“latch, catch, bolt”), apparently referring to the way shellfish "clamp" their shells together. The "sandwich" sense is due to the resemblance of a sandwich (particularly a submarine sandwich) to various shellfish, especially mussels, with the top and bottom bread slices resembling the shell of a shellfish. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈsam.lɔːka] === Noun === samloka f (genitive singular samloku, nominative plural samlokur) sandwich shellfish ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “samloka” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)