{"id":845,"date":"2013-03-15T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T13:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=845"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:36:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:36:03","slug":"the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"vetrarbrautarslaeda-omar-orn-smith\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re into Icelandic and<\/em> astronomy (and hey, who isn’t? :)) there’s a cool site at http:\/\/www.stjornufraedi.is\/<\/a> filled with news, podcasts and all sorts of astronomy-related information. Right on the front page is a survey of the solar system, with short blurbs about each celestial body, and links to more in-depth material. It’s actually not too hard to follow, since it’s all basic material that most everyone already knows in their own language, so give it a shot.<\/p>\n

For reference here are the Icelandic words for the 9 planets in our solar system, and no, I don’t care what the IAU thinks, Pluto is a planet! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
reikistj\u00f6rnur – planets<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Mercury<\/strong><\/td>\nMerk\u00far\u00edus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Venus<\/strong><\/td>\nVenus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Earth<\/strong><\/td>\nJ\u00f6r\u00f0in<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mars<\/strong><\/td>\nMars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jupiter<\/strong><\/td>\nJ\u00fap\u00edter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saturn<\/strong><\/td>\nSat\u00farnus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Uranus<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00daranus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neptune<\/strong><\/td>\nNept\u00fanus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pluto<\/strong><\/td>\nPl\u00fat\u00f3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Menn eru fr\u00e1 Mars, konur eru fr\u00e1 Venus?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Solar system<\/em> in Icelandic is s\u00f3lkerfi<\/strong>. The word kerfi<\/strong> by itself means “system”, and you may see it as a suffix in many words describing types of “systems”, like:<\/p>\n

hag\u00b7kerfi<\/strong> – economic system
\npeninga\u00b7kerfi<\/strong> – monetary system
\nvega\u00b7kerfi<\/strong> – road system
\nrafmagns\u00b7kerfi<\/strong> – electrical system
\n\u00f6ryggis\u00b7kerfi<\/strong> – security system<\/p>\n

og svo framvegis…<\/em> \ud83d\ude42 So when you see -kerfi<\/strong>, it’s a clue to some sort of system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
kerfi (n) – system<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nsingular<\/th>\nplural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
nom<\/th>\nkerfi<\/td>\nkerfi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acc<\/th>\nkerfi<\/td>\nkerfi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dat<\/th>\nkerfi<\/td>\nkerfum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gen<\/th>\nkerfis<\/td>\nkerfa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

A couple other space-related words:<\/p>\n

himingeim\/ur m (-s, -ar)<\/strong> – outer space
\nal\u00b7heim\/ur m (-s)<\/strong> – universe, cosmos
\ngeimskip n (-s, -)<\/strong> – space ship<\/p>\n

The thumbnail for this post is taken from a section of the web page called Mynd vikunnar<\/strong> – Photo of the Week. This week’s photo is an amazing shot of the Milky Way<\/a> taken by \u00d3mar \u00d6rn Smith near Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur on September 18th of last year, which is funny because I was actually in Iceland at that time \ud83d\ude42 I came back with some good photos, but nothing quite like this. This page is titled Vegurinn til Valhallar<\/strong> – The Road to Valhalla.<\/p>\n

From the first paragraph:<\/p>\n

“Ef \u00fe\u00fa fer\u00f0 \u00fat fyrir borgarlj\u00f3sin \u00e1 stj\u00f6rnubjartri og tunglskinslausri vetrarn\u00f3ttu, kemur \u00fe\u00fa flj\u00f3tt auga \u00e1 daufa, lj\u00f3sleita sl\u00e6\u00f0u sem liggur \u00fevert yfir himinhvolfi\u00f0. \u00deetta er Vetrarbrautin okkar og allar stj\u00f6rnurnar sem vi\u00f0 sj\u00e1um \u00e1 stj\u00f6rnubj\u00f6rtu kv\u00f6ldi tilheyra henni.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

My hopefully pretty close translation:<\/p>\n

“If you travel out beyond the city lights on a starry and moonless winter night, your eyes quickly settle on a faintly lit veil that lays right across the vault of the heavens. This is our Milky Way galaxy, and all the stars we see on a starry night belong to it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\r\nstjarna f (stj\u00f6rnu, stj\u00f6rnur)\tstar\r\ntungl n (-s, -)\t\t\tmoon\r\ndaufur adj\t\t\tfaint, dull\r\nhim\/inn m (-ins, -nar)\t\tsky, the heavens\r\nsl\u00e6\u00f0\/a f (-u, -ur)\t\tveil\r\nvetrar\u00b7braut f (-ar, -ir)\tMilky Way, galaxy\r\ntil\u00b7heyr\/a v (dat)\t\tbelong\r\n<\/pre>\n
One interesting verb, tilheyra<\/strong>, which takes the dative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
til\u00b7heyr\/a v (dat) – belong<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\ntilheyri<\/td>\ntilheyr\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\ntilheyrir<\/td>\ntilheyr\u00f0ir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\ntilheyrir<\/td>\ntilheyr\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\ntilheyrum<\/td>\ntilheyr\u00f0um<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\ntilheyri\u00f0<\/td>\ntilheyr\u00f0u\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\ntilheyra<\/td>\ntilheyr\u00f0u<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
\u00deessi b\u00f3k tilheyra b\u00f3kasafninu.<\/strong> – This book belongs to the library.<\/p>\n
It’s not looking too good for Seattle, but I hope you have some nice clear skies this weekend to marvel at the stars. If you happen to be in Iceland I’m especially jealous \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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