uggla

• IPA^(key): /ˈʏkla/
• Rhymes: -ʏkla

  Homophones: ugla, Ugla

Related to uggi (“(fish) fin”).^[1]

uggla f (genitive singular ugglu, nominative plural ugglur)

1. hook

   Synonym: snagi

   • 1939, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Aðventa, 7th edition, Almenna bókafélagið, published 1990, page 51:

     Benedikt þreif mal sinn af hastasteininum og hengdi hann á ugglu í bæjardyrunum;

     Benedikt snatched his hammer from the horse stone and hung it on a hook in the doorway;

uggla f (genitive singular ugglu, nominative plural ugglur)

1. alternative form of ugla (“owl”)

From Late Modern Swedish ugla, from Old Swedish uggla, from Old Norse ugla (compare Danish ugle, Icelandic ugla), from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare English owl, Dutch uil, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”) (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-. Feminine in Late Modern Swedish. Akin to English owl.

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uggla c

1. an owl

   Near-synonym: uv

   hoande ugglor

   hooting owls

• ana ugglor i mossen
• fånga uggla
• hoa (“hoot”)

• uggla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• uggla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• uggla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)