Orkneyjar
Old Norse Dictionary - orkneyjar
Meaning of Old Norse word "orkneyjar"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- orkneyjar
- f. pl. the Orkneys, Lat. Orcades, of Gael. origin, for it occurs in Lat. writers before the Scandinavian occupation, Tacitus (Agric.), Pliny, and Juvenal; hence Orkneyingar, m. pl. the men of the Orkneys: Orkneyskr, adj. passim.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᚱᚴᚾᛁᚢᛁᛅᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- adj.
- adjective.
- f.
- feminine.
- Gael.
- Gaelic.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- pl.
- plural.