húm

See also: hum, Hum, hùm, hũm, and HUM

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse húm, from Proto-Germanic *skim- (“to shine-”), which has been compared to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”),^[1] but according to the Etymologisch Woordenboek this is extremely unlikely.^[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

húm n (genitive singular húms, no plural)

1. twilight, dusk

   Synonyms: ljósaskipti, rökkur, rökkurró

   Antonyms: dögun, afturelding

Declension

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	húm	húmið
accusative	húm	húmið
dative	húmi	húminu
genitive	húms	húmsins

Declension of húm (sg-only neuter)

References

1. Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 199
2. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “hom”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press