lomvi

Etymology
, probably from.

Noun

 * 1) a bird of the genus Uria, the murres or guillemots, particularly the common murre

Etymology
According to the Norwegian Dictionary, from. The variants starting with lang-, similar to the Icelandic one, is attested by Aasen. Compare 🇨🇬, and western Icelandic. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and Orkney 🇨🇬.

The form lomvi itself may be from, from. According to the Danish Dictionary, the Faroese word is derived from 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 (like in ). The Swedish Academy's Dictionary gives a similar etymology for lom- in dialectal 🇨🇬. The Norwegian word is also attested in old Danish sources as lomvibe and lomvifve, pointing towards the original -gi ending.

On the other hand, the -m- sound may have occurred as an assimilation of -ng-. In this case, the word has nothing to do with 🇨🇬, but rather with 🇨🇬. Lang- and lom- may also be etymologically unrelated, because they are not the main part of the term, but are interchangeable. For example, in Icelandic, the ending -vía is also used for rare kinds of guillemots, like and. If neither the first nor last parts are related, Norwegian lomvi and langvie may not be etymologically related at all, despite having the same sense and sounding alike.

Neither ending -vé or -vigi are probably related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a seabird of genus, the murres or guillemots, particularly the common murre