hvergi
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
hvergi
Synonyms edit
- (nowhere): ekki neins staðar, ekki nokkursstaðar
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "nowhere"): alls staðar, allstaðar, út um allt, hvarvetna, á hverju strái
Derived terms edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *hwargin, equivalent to hvar (“where”) + -gi (“not, naught”). Cognate with Old English hwerġen, Old Saxon hwergin.
Adverb edit
hvergi (not comparable)
- nowhere
- by no means, not at all
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: hvergi
Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
hvergi
See also edit
References edit
- “hvergi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press