hundr
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *hundaz, whence also Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch hund, Old High German hunt, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷn̥tós, from *ḱwṓ (“dog”).
Noun edit
hundr m (genitive hunds, plural hundar)
Declension edit
Declension of hundr (strong a-stem)
Descendants edit
- Faroese: hundur
- Icelandic: hundur
- Norn: hund
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hund, (dialectal) hund’e, hónd’e
- Old Swedish: hunder
- Old Danish: hund
- Gutnish: hund
References edit
- “hundr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press