"ylfa" meaning in Old Norse

See ylfa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *wulbī (but extended to an ōn-stem). Derived from ulfr (“wolf”), in the same way as birna (“she-bear”), ketta (“female cat”) and hryssa (“mare”). Etymology templates: {{inh|non|gem-pro|*wulbī}} Proto-Germanic *wulbī Head templates: {{head|non|nouns|g=f|g2=|head=|sort=|tr=}} ylfa f, {{non-noun|f|ylfu}} ylfa f (genitive ylfu) Inflection templates: {{non-decl-f-on|ylf}}, {{non-decl-blank-full|apd=ylfurnar|api=ylfur|asd=ylfuna|asi=ylfu|dpd=ylfunum|dpi=ylfum|dsd=ylfunni|dsi=ylfu|g=feminine|gpd=ylfnanna|gpi=ylfna|gsd=ylfunnar|gsi=ylfu|notes=|npd=ylfurnar|npi=ylfur|nsd=ylfan|nsi=ylfa|stem=weak ōn-stem|title=ylfa}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfa|nsi}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfan|nsd}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfur|npi}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfurnar|npd}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfu|asi}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfuna|asd}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfur|api}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfurnar|apd}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfu|dsi}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfunni|dsd}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfum|dpi}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfunum|dpd}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfu|gsi}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfunnar|gsd}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfna|gpi}}, {{non-decl-cell|ylfnanna|gpd}} Forms: ylfu [genitive], weak [table-tags], ylfa [indefinite, nominative, singular], ylfan [definite, nominative, singular], ylfur [indefinite, nominative, plural], ylfurnar [definite, nominative, plural], ylfu [accusative, indefinite, singular], ylfuna [accusative, definite, singular], ylfur [accusative, indefinite, plural], ylfurnar [accusative, definite, plural], ylfu [dative, indefinite, singular], ylfunni [dative, definite, singular], ylfum [dative, indefinite, plural], ylfunum [dative, definite, plural], ylfu [genitive, indefinite, singular], ylfunnar [definite, genitive, singular], ylfna [genitive, indefinite, plural], ylfnanna [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. (hapax) she-wolf Tags: feminine Categories (lifeform): Canids, Female animals Synonyms: ylgr

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "Ylfa",
            "3": "Ylva",
            "4": "ylfa",
            "5": "ýlfa",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Icelandic: Ylfa, Ylva, ylfa, ýlfa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Icelandic: Ylfa, Ylva, ylfa, ýlfa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmq-osw",
            "2": "ylva",
            "3": "Ylva"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Swedish: ylva, Ylva",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Swedish: ylva, Ylva"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "Ylva"
          },
          "expansion": "Swedish: Ylva",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Swedish: Ylva"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wulbī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wulbī",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *wulbī (but extended to an ōn-stem). Derived from ulfr (“wolf”), in the same way as birna (“she-bear”), ketta (“female cat”) and hryssa (“mare”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-decl-f-on",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōn-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfuna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfunni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfunum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfunnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfnanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ylfa f",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "ylfu"
      },
      "expansion": "ylfa f (genitive ylfu)",
      "name": "non-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylf"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-f-on"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "apd": "ylfurnar",
        "api": "ylfur",
        "asd": "ylfuna",
        "asi": "ylfu",
        "dpd": "ylfunum",
        "dpi": "ylfum",
        "dsd": "ylfunni",
        "dsi": "ylfu",
        "g": "feminine",
        "gpd": "ylfnanna",
        "gpi": "ylfna",
        "gsd": "ylfunnar",
        "gsi": "ylfu",
        "notes": "",
        "npd": "ylfurnar",
        "npi": "ylfur",
        "nsd": "ylfan",
        "nsi": "ylfa",
        "stem": "weak ōn-stem",
        "title": "ylfa"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-blank-full"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfa",
        "2": "nsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfan",
        "2": "nsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfur",
        "2": "npi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfurnar",
        "2": "npd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfu",
        "2": "asi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfuna",
        "2": "asd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfur",
        "2": "api"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfurnar",
        "2": "apd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfu",
        "2": "dsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfunni",
        "2": "dsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfum",
        "2": "dpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfunum",
        "2": "dpd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfu",
        "2": "gsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfunnar",
        "2": "gsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfna",
        "2": "gpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfnanna",
        "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": "Old Norse hapax legomena",
          "parents": [
            "Hapax legomena",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "non",
          "name": "Canids",
          "orig": "non:Canids",
          "parents": [
            "Carnivores",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "non",
          "name": "Female animals",
          "orig": "non:Female animals",
          "parents": [
            "Animals",
            "Female",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Gender",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "No one knows from what family he is descended, as he was found in a wolf's lair.",
          "ref": "15th century, J. B. Dodsworth, transl., edited by Agnete Loth, Late Medieval Icelandic Romances (Editiones Arnamagnæanæ B; 23), volume IV, Copenhagen, published 1964, →ISBN, →ISSN, Vilhjálms saga sjóðs, page 98:",
          "text": "ei uissu menn ætt hans. þuiat hann fannzt j greni ylfu einnar.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "she-wolf"
      ],
      "id": "en-ylfa-non-noun-sUaPONh3",
      "links": [
        [
          "she-wolf",
          "she-wolf"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hapax) she-wolf"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ylgr"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ylfa"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "Ylfa",
            "3": "Ylva",
            "4": "ylfa",
            "5": "ýlfa",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Icelandic: Ylfa, Ylva, ylfa, ýlfa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Icelandic: Ylfa, Ylva, ylfa, ýlfa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmq-osw",
            "2": "ylva",
            "3": "Ylva"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Swedish: ylva, Ylva",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Swedish: ylva, Ylva"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "Ylva"
          },
          "expansion": "Swedish: Ylva",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Swedish: Ylva"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wulbī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wulbī",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *wulbī (but extended to an ōn-stem). Derived from ulfr (“wolf”), in the same way as birna (“she-bear”), ketta (“female cat”) and hryssa (“mare”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "non-decl-f-on",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōn-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfuna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfur",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfurnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfunni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfunum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfunnar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ylfnanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ylfa f",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "ylfu"
      },
      "expansion": "ylfa f (genitive ylfu)",
      "name": "non-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylf"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-f-on"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "apd": "ylfurnar",
        "api": "ylfur",
        "asd": "ylfuna",
        "asi": "ylfu",
        "dpd": "ylfunum",
        "dpi": "ylfum",
        "dsd": "ylfunni",
        "dsi": "ylfu",
        "g": "feminine",
        "gpd": "ylfnanna",
        "gpi": "ylfna",
        "gsd": "ylfunnar",
        "gsi": "ylfu",
        "notes": "",
        "npd": "ylfurnar",
        "npi": "ylfur",
        "nsd": "ylfan",
        "nsi": "ylfa",
        "stem": "weak ōn-stem",
        "title": "ylfa"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-blank-full"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfa",
        "2": "nsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfan",
        "2": "nsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfur",
        "2": "npi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfurnar",
        "2": "npd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfu",
        "2": "asi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfuna",
        "2": "asd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfur",
        "2": "api"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfurnar",
        "2": "apd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfu",
        "2": "dsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfunni",
        "2": "dsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfum",
        "2": "dpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfunum",
        "2": "dpd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfu",
        "2": "gsi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfunnar",
        "2": "gsd"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfna",
        "2": "gpi"
      },
      "name": "non-decl-cell"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ylfnanna",
        "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 hapax legomena",
        "Old Norse lemmas",
        "Old Norse nouns",
        "Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
        "Old Norse terms with quotations",
        "Old Norse ōn-stem nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "non:Canids",
        "non:Female animals"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "No one knows from what family he is descended, as he was found in a wolf's lair.",
          "ref": "15th century, J. B. Dodsworth, transl., edited by Agnete Loth, Late Medieval Icelandic Romances (Editiones Arnamagnæanæ B; 23), volume IV, Copenhagen, published 1964, →ISBN, →ISSN, Vilhjálms saga sjóðs, page 98:",
          "text": "ei uissu menn ætt hans. þuiat hann fannzt j greni ylfu einnar.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "she-wolf"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "she-wolf",
          "she-wolf"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hapax) she-wolf"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ylgr"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ylfa"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ylfa meaning in Old Norse (5.3kB)

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: hapax",
  "path": [
    "ylfa"
  ],
  "section": "Old Norse",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ylfa",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: hapax",
  "path": [
    "ylfa"
  ],
  "section": "Old Norse",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ylfa",
  "trace": ""
}

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