ærgi - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 Faroese
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    * 1.3.1 Usage notes
    * 1.3.2 Declension
    * 1.3.3 Derived terms

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From Old Irish áirge. Compare Scottish Gaelic àirigh (“hill pasture”).

• IPA(key): /ˈaɹt͡ʃɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɹt͡ʃɪ
• Homophones: argi, argið

ærgi n (genitive singular ærgis, plural **ærgi or ærgir)

1. a pasture for cattle to graze over the summer with a hut where the people tending them live meanwhile; a shieling, saeter

• Because of dialectal variation, when in compounded placenames, this word is sometimes spelled as pronounced in that area, thus the existence of both the form Argisá and Ergisá. On modern maps, these are spelled Ærgisá.
• Ærgisá
• Ærgisdalur
• Argir

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• Faroese terms derived from Old Irish
• Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation
• Rhymes:Faroese/aɹt͡ʃɪ
• Faroese terms with homophones
• Faroese lemmas
• Faroese nouns
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