ugle
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish ugglæ, from Old Norse ugla (“owl”) (compare Swedish uggla, Icelandic ugla), from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare English owl, Dutch uil, West Frisian ûle, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwô ‘eagle-owl’ (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv ‘horned owl’, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuːlə/, [ˈuːlə], [ˈuːl̩]
Noun
ugle c (singular definite uglen, plural indefinite ugler)
Inflection
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ugle | uglen | ugler | uglerne |
| genitive | ugles | uglens | uglers | uglernes |
Derived terms
- der er ugler i mosen
- dværghornugle
- fange ugler
- hornugle
- høgeugle
- kapugle
- kirkeugle
- krudtugle
- lapugle
- mosehornugle
- natugle
- perleugle
- platugle
- plettet hornugle
- prærieugle
- skovhornugle
- slagugle
- slørugle
- sneugle
- spurveugle
- stribet dværghornugle
- uglegylp
- ugleset
- ørkennatugle
Further reading
- ugle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Ugler (sommerfugle) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Verb
ugle (imperative ugl, infinitive at ugle, present tense ugler, past tense uglede, perfect tense er/har uglet)
Conjugation
References
- “ugle” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
ugle f or m (definite singular ugla or uglen, indefinite plural ugler, definite plural uglene)
- an owl
References
- “ugle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse ugla. Akin to English owl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ʊɡlə/, /²ʊɡɽə/
Noun
ugle f (definite singular ugla, indefinite plural ugler, definite plural uglene)
References
- “ugle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
ugle (Cyrillic spelling угле)
- vocative singular of ugao