heima

heima

1. at home

• IPA^(key): /ˈheiːma/

  Rhymes: -eiːma

From Old Norse heima. Cognate with Swedish hemma (“at home”).

heima (not comparable)

1. home, at home

   Hæ pabbi, ertu heima? Ég gleymdi lyklunum mínum.

   Hey dad, are you at home? I forgot my keys.

   Hvar áttu heima?

   Where do you live?

   Hvar ertu? - Heima hjá mér.

   Where are you? - At home.

• heimalærdómur
• heimasími
• heimaverkefni
• heimavinna

• heimskur

• heim

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

heima

1. inflection of heimur:
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural

heima

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by heiman

• IPA^(key): /²hɛɪːma/

From Old Norse heima.

heima

1. (pre-1901 or dialectal) alternative form of heime

Calque of English home.

• heime (e-infinitive)

heima (present tense heimar, past tense heima, past participle heima, passive infinitive heimast, present participle heimande, imperative heima/heim)

1. (military, transitive) to home

• heimande våpen

The adverb seems to be a petrified locative of the noun heima.^[1] Although this noun is a neuter n-stem, it is likely cognate with Old High German heima, Old Saxon hēme, and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍉𐍃 (haimōs, nom./acc. plural), all feminine ō-stems.^[2]

Compare similar old locatives Old High German heime, heimi and Old Saxon hēme (“at home”), which however are from the related Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

heima

1. at home

• Icelandic: heima
• Faroese: heima
• Norwegian Nynorsk: heime
  • Norwegian Bokmål: heime
• Old Swedish: hemä/hemæ
  • Swedish: hemma
• Old Danish: hemæ, hemmæ
  • Danish: hjemme
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hjemme

heima n (genitive heima)

1. house, home

   at heima mínu ― at/to my home

   til þíns heima ― to your home

   eiga heima (einhvers staðar) ― to live (somewhere)

heima m

1. accusative/genitive plural indefinite of heimr

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “heima”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive