Noun: is
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
Genitive
Sample Sentences
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Ja, hennes ögon är av is. Dom säger allt och ingenting. Ja, hon har ögon av is. (Yes, her eyes are made of ice. They say everything and nothing. Yes, she has eyes of ice.) [1982, Ratata, “Ögon av is [Eyes of ice]”, in Ratata:]
Nouns inflected like is
silver,
utpressning,
rajtantajtan,
rajtan tajtan,
fuffens,
ögonhöjd,
svettning,
orientering,
öronbedövande tystnad,
studsning,
kyckling,
gangrän,
medelnedertyska,
luftmotstånd,
besinning,
tapering,
generalisering,
isglass,
pilates,
nonsens, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Swedish is, from Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. See: Old Norse Nouns '
íss'.
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