{"id":921,"date":"2013-03-14T13:41:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=921"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:35:43","slug":"spring-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/spring-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Plover\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Forget about the swallows returning to Capistrano…the plovers have returned to Iceland<\/a>, spring is here!<\/p>\n

It’s just a short story from R\u00daV, with a couple of interesting words. It never ceases to amaze me the words I find in the online dictionary<\/a> I use. Pretty much every species of bird mentioned in this article was in there, things I had to look up because I didn’t know what they were \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\r\nl\u00f3\/a f (-u, -ur)        - golden plover\r\nsp\u00f3k\/a sig v            - stroll, saunter\r\nve\u00f0ur\u00b7bl\u00ed\u00f0\/a f (-u)     - mild weather\r\nfar\u00b7fugl m (-s, -ar)    - migratory bird\r\nmar\u00edu\u00b7erl\/a f (-u, -ur) - white wagtail\r\n\u00e1lft f (-ar, -ir)       - whooper swan\r\ndugg\/\u00f6nd f              - scaup (type of duck)\r\ngr\u00e1\u00b7g\u00e6s f (-ar, -ir)    - greylag goose\r\n<\/pre>\n
The word for the season spring<\/em> is a neuter noun:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
vor (n) – spring<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nsingular<\/th>\nplural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
nom<\/th>\nvor<\/td>\nvor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acc<\/th>\nvor<\/td>\nvor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dat<\/th>\nvori<\/td>\nvorum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gen<\/th>\nvors<\/td>\nvora<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
\u00c1 vorin l\u00f3an kemur til landsins.<\/strong><\/p>\n
fugl<\/strong> is actually an ordinary masculine noun similar to those discussed in this<\/a> post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
fugl (m) – bird<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nsingular<\/th>\nplural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
nom<\/th>\nfugl<\/td>\nfuglar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acc<\/th>\nfugl<\/td>\nfugla<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dat<\/th>\nfugli<\/td>\nfuglum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gen<\/th>\nfugls<\/td>\nfugla<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
It’s interesting to note the meaning that the prefix far-<\/strong> adds to a word, imparting the sense of mobility or distance. In farfugl<\/strong> the idea of migration is added. Some others are:<\/p>\n
far\u00b7t\u00f6lv\/a f (-u)<\/strong> – laptop (a mobile computer of sorts)
\nfar\u00b7s\u00edm\/i m (-a, -ar)<\/strong> – cell phone (mobile phone)
\nfar\u00b7\u00feeg\/i m (-a, -ar)<\/strong> – passenger (migratory human? :))<\/p>\n
far n (-s, f\u00f6r)<\/strong> – ride, passage
\nM\u00e1 bj\u00f3\u00f0a \u00fe\u00e9r far?<\/strong> – Can I offer you a ride?<\/p>\n
f\u00f6r f (farar, farir)<\/strong> – journey, trip<\/p>\n
You can read more about the hei\u00f0l\u00f3a<\/strong> here:
\nhttp:\/\/is.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hei\u00f0l\u00f3a<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forget about the swallows returning to Capistrano…the plovers have returned to Iceland, spring is here! It’s just a short story…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}