sommerfugl

Danish

Etymology

From sommer (“summer”) +‎ fugl (“bird”), maybe from Middle Low German somervogel, cf. Plautdietsch Sommavoagel, Yiddish זומער־פֿייגעלע (zumer-feygele).

Noun

sommerfugl c (singular definite sommerfuglen, plural indefinite sommerfugle)

butterfly

Inflection

Declension of sommerfugl

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sommerfugl	sommerfuglen	sommerfugle	sommerfuglene
genitive	sommerfugls	sommerfuglens	sommerfugles	sommerfuglenes

Norwegian Bokmål

Sommerfugl

Etymology

From sommer (“summer”) +‎ fugl (“bird”), maybe from Middle Low German somervogel, cf. Yiddish זומער־פֿייגעלע (zumer-feygele).

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ʉːɽ

Noun

sommerfugl m (definite singular sommerfuglen, indefinite plural sommerfugler, definite plural sommerfuglene)

a butterfly

See also

larve
nattsvermer
sommarfugl (Nynorsk)

References

“sommerfugl” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“sommerfugl” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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