Noun: øy
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like øy
nedbryting,
nedbrytning,
etablering,
frokostblanding,
sender,
avbildning,
etterretning,
sjølei,
betongsag,
havstrømning,
koldnålsradering,
skarphet,
villmark,
bedring,
atomvekt,
klimaendring,
beiting,
kulltegning,
bergart,
berging, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse ey (“island”), from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“floodplain, meadow, island”), from earlier *agwjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”). Cognate with English ey, eyot, oe, ait, and German Aue. See: Old Norse Nouns '
ey', English Nouns '
ey', German Nouns '
Aue'.
Verbs referencing "øy"
English Nouns
eyot.
Translations