dovhjort
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Swedish dā hiorth, from dā (“fallow deer”) + hiorter (“deer”); dā is borrowed from Old English dā, from Proto-West Germanic *daihā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-.
According to Thun, the modern form in dov- (for expected *dåhjort) is due to the influence of dov (“muffled, deep”), with reference to the roaring of stags.
Noun
[edit]dovhjort c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | dovhjort | dovhjorts |
| definite | dovhjorten | dovhjortens | |
| plural | indefinite | dovhjortar | dovhjortars |
| definite | dovhjortarna | dovhjortarnas |
References
[edit]- “dovhjort”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “dovhjort”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “dovhjort”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- Thun, Nils (1968), “Germanic words for deer”, in Studia Neophilologica, volume 40, A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandeln, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105.