sjaldan

== Icelandic == === Alternative forms === skjaldan (regional) === Etymology === From Old Norse sjaldan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsjaltan/ Rhymes: -altan === Adverb === sjaldan (comparative sjaldnar, superlative sjaldnast) seldom, rarely ==== Derived terms ==== sjaldan er ein báran stök örsjaldan ==== Related terms ==== sjald- sjaldfarinn (“seldom travelled”) sjaldgæfur (“rare”) sjaldheyrður (“seldom heard”) sjaldlegur (“rare”) sjaldséður (“seldom seen”) === Further reading === “sjaldan” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages) == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *seldanē. === Adverb === sjaldan (comparative sjaldnar, superlative sjaldnast) seldom ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: sjaldan Faroese: sjáldan, sjaldan Norwegian Nynorsk: sjeldan; (dialectal) sjalda, sjølda, sjeldom Old Swedish: siäldan, säldan, siällan Swedish: sällan Old Danish: siældæn Danish: sjælden Norwegian Bokmål: sjelden === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “sjaldan”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive