Talk:tvær vikur

tvær vikur
Nominating jointly with...

fjórtán dagar
These are "two weeks" and "fourteen days" respectively. SOP per above. I've held off on nominating hálfur mánuður ("half month") since it's not clear whether it literally means "half a month", or if it always idiomatically means a fortnight regardless of the length of the month. Any Icelandic speakers able to clarify? Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:59, 4 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Just to make it more fun, bear in mind that there are non-Western calendars (e.g. Hebrew and Hijri) which also have "months", and their lengths are more variable. Equinox ◑ 17:00, 4 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure there's an Icelandic word for fortnight, and I don't think there is in Norwegian (fjorten dager, to uker in Bokmål), Danish (fjorten dage, to uger) and Swedish (fjorton dagar, två veckor) either. For that reason it may be a good idea to keep these Icelandic phrases. Donnanz (talk) 17:29, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete both. The absence of an Icelandic word for fortnight is no reason to violate our own CFI. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:22, 4 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. Unidiomatic sums of parts by their etymology sections’ own admittance. — Ungoliant (falai) 21:23, 4 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep, as probably the best Icelandic translations of fortnight. Both entries were created in 2007 by User:BiT, who is a native Icelandic speaker. I often wonder how these sorts of nominations are supposed to improve the dictionary. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:37, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I have just come across a Nynorsk word "fjortendagar", which is rather interesting. Donnanz (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete both. Just because English has the word doesn't mean that all languages that don't have such a word need to have entries for "two weeks" or "fourteen days". --WikiTiki89 10:53, 25 June 2014 (UTC)


 * It does seem that fjortendagar is attestable, which would invoke WT:COALMINE if they were in the same language. However, I do not read either Nynorsk or Icelandic, so I don't know offhand what language these cites are in.,, , , . bd2412 T 13:53, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep "Fortnight" is the modern form of Old English fēowertȳne niht. Furthermore, this term is the best translation for "fortnight" out there for Icelandic. Tharthan (talk) 11:09, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Counting Donnanz as leaning towards keep (and excluding my own query), I see four to delete (Smurrayinchester, Aɴɢʀ, Ungoliant, and WikiTiki) and three to keep (Donnanz, Dan Polansky, and Tharthan). If there are no further comments within the next day or so, I am inclined to put this six month old discussion to rest as "no consensus". bd2412 T 04:40, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, keep. Donnanz (talk) 09:30, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Kept, no consensus to delete. bd2412 T 15:53, 12 December 2014 (UTC)