fjarlægir

Fjarlægir is an Icelandic word that functions as the masculine plural nominative form of the adjective fjarlægur, meaning distant or remote. It is used to describe nouns that are far away in space or that are metaphorically distant. For example, fjarlægir staðir means distant places, or fjarlægir vinir could refer to distant friends in a relational sense. As an Icelandic adjective, fjarlægir declines according to gender, number, and definiteness, so it is specifically the masculine plural nominative form.

Grammatical usage: In Icelandic, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and definiteness. Fjarlægir appears in contexts where the subject or object is masculine and plural in the nominative case. Other grammatical forms of the adjective (such as singular forms or definite forms) are used in different syntactic positions or with different nouns.

Etymology and related forms: The stem fjarlæg- is linked to related Icelandic words dealing with distance or removal. It is cognate with terms found in related Nordic languages and is connected conceptually to the noun fjarlægð (distance) and the verb fjarlægja (to distance or remove). The word conveys both literal geographical distance and figurative distance.

See also: fjarlægð, fjarlægja. The term is not a proper noun and is capitalized only at the beginning of a sentence.