ögnar

Cimbrian

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *unkar, from Proto-Germanic *unkeraz (1st person possessive dual). Compare Icelandic okkar. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Determiner

ögnar (plural ögnarn, bon/dar ögnarn) (Sette Comuni)

1. our

   Dar ögnar éezel isset bonallame. ― Our donkey eats everything.

   d'ögnarn prüdare un d'ögnarn sbéstare ― our brothers and sisters

   òone bon ögnarn öoben ― one of our sheep

2. ours

   De khua ist ögnar. ― The cow is ours.

Usage notes

The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:

• They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
• Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
  • The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
• Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
• Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

Inflection

Inflection of ögnar
masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
ögnardar	ögnara	ögnares	ögnare
These inflections are only used in exclamations.

Synonyms

• ünsar (Luserna)

See also

Possessive determiners
	singular	plural
1st person	main	ögnar
2nd person	dain	ôar
3rd person	zain

References

• “ögnar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Swedish

Verb

ögnar

1. present indicative of ögna

Anagrams

• Göran, gröna