feðgar

From Old Norse feðgar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛkːaɹ]

feðgar m pl (genitive plural feðga)

1. father and son

• feðgar á ferð (“father and son hit the road”) (title of a novel by Heðin Brú)

• møðgur (mother and daughter)

From Old Norse feðgar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛðkar/

feðgar m pl (plural only, genitive plural feðga)

1. father and son
   • 1939, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Aðventa, 7th edition, Almenna bókafélagið, published 1990, page 49:

     Benedikt heilsaði þeim feðgum með handabandi, leit í augu þeirra um leið.

     Benedikt greeted father and son with a handshake, looked them in the eye at the same time.

• feðgin (“father and daughter”)
• mæðgin (“mother and son”)
• mæðgur (“mother and daughter”)

• “feðgar” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From earlier *faðrigar, derived from faðir (“father”), compare feðgin (“father and mother”).

feðgar m pl

1. male generations; father and son

   feðgar tveir

   father and son

   (literally, “two male generations”)

• mǿðgur
• mǿðgin

• langfeðgar (“paternal ancestors”)
• langfeðgatal (“a poem enumerating paternal ancestors”)

• Icelandic: feðgar
• Faroese: feðgar
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fegge m
• Old Swedish: faþghær, fæþghar