örngott

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish örnagāt, from örna, genitive plural of öra (compare Icelandic eyrna) + -gott.

Compare synonymous terms (typologically ear and cheek related):

ear: Dutch oorkussen (oor + kussen), French oreiller (oreille + -er < Latin auriculāris < auricula < auris), Welsh clustog (< clust);
cheek: German Wangenkissen (analyzable as Wange + Kissen) < Old High German wangkussīn (whence Slovak vankúš, Hungarian vánkos), Greek μαξιλάρι (maxilári) (<Latin māxillāris), Arabic مِخَدَّة (miḵadda) (< خَدّ (ḵadd, “cheek”)) (whence Spanish almohada).

Noun

örngott n

  1. a pillow case, a pillowslip
  2. (obsolete) a pillow
    Synonym: kudde

Declension

Declension of örngott
nominative genitive
singular indefinite örngott örngotts
definite örngottet örngottets
plural indefinite örngott örngotts
definite örngotten örngottens

References

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