"bylgja" meaning in Old Norse

See bylgja in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *bulgijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. Etymology templates: {{root|non|ine-pro|*bʰelǵʰ-}}, {{inh|non|gem-pro|*bulgijō}} Proto-Germanic *bulgijō, {{der|non|ine-pro|*bʰelǵʰ-}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- Head templates: {{head|non|nouns|g=f|g2=|head=|sort=|tr=}} bylgja f, {{non-noun|f}} bylgja f Inflection templates: {{non-decl-f-jon|bylg|bylgna}}, {{non-decl-blank-full|apd=bylgjurnar|api=bylgjur|asd=bylgjuna|asi=bylgju|dpd=bylgjunum|dpi=bylgjum|dsd=bylgjunni|dsi=bylgju|g=feminine|gpd=bylgnanna|gpi=bylgna|gsd=bylgjunnar|gsi=bylgju|notes=|npd=bylgjurnar|npi=bylgjur|nsd=bylgjan|nsi=bylgja|stem=weak jōn-stem|title=bylgja}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgja|nsi}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjan|nsd}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjur|npi}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjurnar|npd}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgju|asi}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjuna|asd}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjur|api}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjurnar|apd}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgju|dsi}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjunni|dsd}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjum|dpi}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjunum|dpd}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgju|gsi}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgjunnar|gsd}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgna|gpi}}, {{non-decl-cell|bylgnanna|gpd}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], bylgja [indefinite, nominative, singular], bylgjan [definite, nominative, singular], bylgjur [indefinite, nominative, plural], bylgjurnar [definite, nominative, plural], bylgju [accusative, indefinite, singular], bylgjuna [accusative, definite, singular], bylgjur [accusative, indefinite, plural], bylgjurnar [accusative, definite, plural], bylgju [dative, indefinite, singular], bylgjunni [dative, definite, singular], bylgjum [dative, indefinite, plural], bylgjunum [dative, definite, plural], bylgju [genitive, indefinite, singular], bylgjunnar [definite, genitive, singular], bylgna [genitive, indefinite, plural], bylgnanna [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. wave, billow Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bylgja-non-noun-hn0xnqGm Categories (other): Old Norse entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "bylgja"
          },
          "expansion": "Icelandic: bylgja",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Icelandic: bylgja"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fo",
            "2": "bylgja"
          },
          "expansion": "Faroese: bylgja",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Faroese: bylgja"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nn",
            "2": "bylgja",
            "3": "bylgju",
            "4": "bylgje",
            "5": "bølgje",
            "6": ";",
            "7": "bulgje<q:dialectal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: bylgja, bylgju, bylgje, bølgje; (dialectal) bulgje",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: bylgja, bylgju, bylgje, bølgje; (dialectal) bulgje"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "bölja"
          },
          "expansion": "Swedish: bölja",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Swedish: bölja"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "da",
            "2": "bølge"
          },
          "expansion": "Danish: bølge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Danish: bølge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "bølge"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: bølge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: bølge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nn",
            "2": "bølge",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bølge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bølge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "*bilowe",
            "3": "*bilewe",
            "4": "*bilwe",
            "5": "*bilȝe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle English: *bilowe, *bilewe, *bilwe, *bilȝe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle English: *bilowe, *bilewe, *bilwe, *bilȝe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "billow"
          },
          "expansion": "English: billow",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: billow"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰelǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*bulgijō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *bulgijō",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰelǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *bulgijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-decl-f-jon",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgja",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjuna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjunni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjunum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjunnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgnanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bylgja f",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "bylgja f",
      "name": "non-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylg",
        "2": "bylgna"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-f-jon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "apd": "bylgjurnar",
        "api": "bylgjur",
        "asd": "bylgjuna",
        "asi": "bylgju",
        "dpd": "bylgjunum",
        "dpi": "bylgjum",
        "dsd": "bylgjunni",
        "dsi": "bylgju",
        "g": "feminine",
        "gpd": "bylgnanna",
        "gpi": "bylgna",
        "gsd": "bylgjunnar",
        "gsi": "bylgju",
        "notes": "",
        "npd": "bylgjurnar",
        "npi": "bylgjur",
        "nsd": "bylgjan",
        "nsi": "bylgja",
        "stem": "weak jōn-stem",
        "title": "bylgja"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-blank-full"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgja",
        "2": "nsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjan",
        "2": "nsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjur",
        "2": "npi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjurnar",
        "2": "npd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgju",
        "2": "asi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjuna",
        "2": "asd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjur",
        "2": "api"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjurnar",
        "2": "apd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgju",
        "2": "dsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjunni",
        "2": "dsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjum",
        "2": "dpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjunum",
        "2": "dpd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgju",
        "2": "gsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjunnar",
        "2": "gsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgna",
        "2": "gpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgnanna",
        "2": "gpd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Norse",
  "lang_code": "non",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wave, billow"
      ],
      "id": "en-bylgja-non-noun-hn0xnqGm",
      "links": [
        [
          "wave",
          "wave"
        ],
        [
          "billow",
          "billow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bylgja"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "bylgja"
          },
          "expansion": "Icelandic: bylgja",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Icelandic: bylgja"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fo",
            "2": "bylgja"
          },
          "expansion": "Faroese: bylgja",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Faroese: bylgja"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nn",
            "2": "bylgja",
            "3": "bylgju",
            "4": "bylgje",
            "5": "bølgje",
            "6": ";",
            "7": "bulgje<q:dialectal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: bylgja, bylgju, bylgje, bølgje; (dialectal) bulgje",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: bylgja, bylgju, bylgje, bølgje; (dialectal) bulgje"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "bölja"
          },
          "expansion": "Swedish: bölja",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Swedish: bölja"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "da",
            "2": "bølge"
          },
          "expansion": "Danish: bølge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Danish: bølge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "bølge"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: bølge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: bølge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nn",
            "2": "bølge",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bølge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bølge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "*bilowe",
            "3": "*bilewe",
            "4": "*bilwe",
            "5": "*bilȝe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle English: *bilowe, *bilewe, *bilwe, *bilȝe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle English: *bilowe, *bilewe, *bilwe, *bilȝe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "billow"
          },
          "expansion": "English: billow",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: billow"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰelǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*bulgijō"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰelǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *bulgijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-decl-f-jon",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgja",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjuna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjunni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjunum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgjunnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bylgnanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bylgja f",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "bylgja f",
      "name": "non-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylg",
        "2": "bylgna"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-f-jon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "apd": "bylgjurnar",
        "api": "bylgjur",
        "asd": "bylgjuna",
        "asi": "bylgju",
        "dpd": "bylgjunum",
        "dpi": "bylgjum",
        "dsd": "bylgjunni",
        "dsi": "bylgju",
        "g": "feminine",
        "gpd": "bylgnanna",
        "gpi": "bylgna",
        "gsd": "bylgjunnar",
        "gsi": "bylgju",
        "notes": "",
        "npd": "bylgjurnar",
        "npi": "bylgjur",
        "nsd": "bylgjan",
        "nsi": "bylgja",
        "stem": "weak jōn-stem",
        "title": "bylgja"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-blank-full"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgja",
        "2": "nsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjan",
        "2": "nsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjur",
        "2": "npi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjurnar",
        "2": "npd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgju",
        "2": "asi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjuna",
        "2": "asd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjur",
        "2": "api"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjurnar",
        "2": "apd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgju",
        "2": "dsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjunni",
        "2": "dsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjum",
        "2": "dpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjunum",
        "2": "dpd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgju",
        "2": "gsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgjunnar",
        "2": "gsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgna",
        "2": "gpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bylgnanna",
        "2": "gpd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Norse",
  "lang_code": "non",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old Norse feminine nouns",
        "Old Norse jōn-stem nouns",
        "Old Norse lemmas",
        "Old Norse nouns",
        "Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰelǵʰ-",
        "Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wave, billow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wave",
          "wave"
        ],
        [
          "billow",
          "billow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bylgja"
}

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