stjarna

From Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstjartna/

  Rhymes: -artna

stjarna f (genitive singular stjörnu, nominative plural stjörnur)

1. (astronomy) a star

From Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”). Cognate with Old English steorra, Old Frisian stēra, Old Saxon sterro, Old Dutch sterno, sterro, Old High German sterno, sterro, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō).

stjarna f (genitive stjǫrnu, plural stjǫrnur)

1. star

• Icelandic: stjarna
• Faroese: stjørna
• Norn: sterna
• Norwegian Bokmål: stjerne
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stjerne
• Old Swedish: stiærna
  • Swedish: stjärna
• Old Danish: stiærnæ
  • Danish: stjerne
• Elfdalian: stienna
• Gutnish: stjännå, stjänne
• Scanian: stjærna
• → Middle English: sterne, stern, starne, starn, sterrne, steorrne
  • English: starn (dialectal)
  • Scots: starn

• “stjarna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press