vegur

From Old Norse vegr, Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Cognate with Latin via.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveːvʊɹ/
• Rhymes: -eːvʊɹ
• Homophones: veður, vevur

vegur m (genitive singular vegar, plural vegir)

1. way, road
2. distance
3. movement towards a goal, direction
4. possibility

• gøta
• longd, strekki
• leið
• møguleiki

• breyt
• brúgv
• á

From Old Norse vegr, Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Cognate with Latin via.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛːɣʏr/

  Rhymes: -ɛːɣʏr

vegur m (genitive singular vegar or (in fixed expressions) vegs, nominative plural vegir)

1. way
2. road

• The genitive singular vegs is used in fixed expressions such as til vegs og virðingar.
• The otherwise obsolete accusative plural vegu is also used with the preposition á to mean “in [a specified] way”, eg. á ýmsa vegu (“in various ways”), and in expressions about travelling widely, such as um víða vegu (“far and wide”).
• The accusative plural forms vega and vegana occur in fixed expressions, some obsolete, e.g. alla vega/alla vegana (“all kinds of; at least, anyways”).

• allir vegir liggja til Rómar
• -vegis
  • afturvegis
  • fjórvegis
  • framvegis
  • hálfvegis
  • hringvegis
  • langvegis
  • margvegis
  • oftvegis
  • smávegis
  • tvívegis
  • þrívegis

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “-vegis”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “vegur”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “vegur” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)