Language question

[kelly]

Anybody know enough Icelandic to tell me if a) ??r?ta?lfurinn (as a word/name) is gendered and b) what the feminine would be if it is and it's possible to feminise?

Thanks.

[EdisLeado]

well, it translates to sports elf directly, doesn't it? I think we all probably already know that. but if you ask me, it's not gendered.

[kelly]

I'm perfectly aware of what it means, but this is a language where the name of the town changes depending on what part of speech it's used as (Latibaer/Latabae), and in most languages I know anything about pretty much everything is gendered. I don't think you can apply English's grammatical logic to another language (i.e. 'sports elf' is gender neutral, ergo '??r?ta?lfurinn' must be also), even if both are in the Germanic family.
I did some poking around in a Icelandic dictionary (had to sign up for a free 15 day trial of a pay one to get one that helped), and it claims that '?lfur' (which seems to be the bit that means 'elf') is masculine. Doesn't help much with finding a reasonably grammatical feminine, though.

[M_B]

Well, Icelandic is a language of direct Nordic decent, which means it most likely doesn't have feminine or masculine parallel word(in other words unisex).

I'm perfectly aware of what it means, but this is a language where the name of the town changes depending on what part of speech it's used as (Latibaer/Latabae), and in most languages I know anything about pretty much everything is gendered. I don't think you can apply English's grammatical logic to another language (i.e. 'sports elf' is gender neutral, ergo '??r?ta?lfurinn' must be also), even if both are in the Germanic family.
I did some poking around in a Icelandic dictionary (had to sign up for a free 15 day trial of a pay one to get one that helped), and it claims that '?lfur' (which seems to be the bit that means 'elf') is masculine. Doesn't help much with finding a reasonably grammatical feminine, though.

Latibaer is the name for the play, and Latabae is the name of the show.