þórðargleði
Icelandic
Etymology
From Þórður (“Þórður, an Icelandic male given name”) + gleði (“joy, happiness”), literally “joy of Þórður”. It was coined by reverend Árni Þórarinsson (1860–1948) to describe an event in which Þórður, one of his parishioners, laughed at the poor fortune of the people living in the North of Iceland who had suffered hay rot due to excessive raining that summer.
Although the word Þórður is a proper name and is capitalized the compound word þórðargleði is not.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθourðarklɛːðɪ/
Noun
þórðargleði f (genitive singular þórðargleði, no plural)
- schadenfreude (malicious enjoyment of another person's suffering)
- Synonyms: meinfýsi, hlakka yfir
Declension
declension of þórðargleði
| f-w2 | singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | þórðargleði | þórðargleðin |
| accusative | þórðargleði | þórðargleðina |
| dative | þórðargleði | þórðargleðinni |
| genitive | þórðargleði | þórðargleðinnar |
References
Further reading
- “þórðargleði” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
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