kván
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *kwēniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”). Cognate with modern English queen.
Noun edit
kván f (genitive kvánar, plural kvánir)
Declension edit
Declension of kván (strong i-stem)
Derived terms edit
- kvánarefni n (“future wife”)
- kvánarmundr m (“sum paid by a man for his wife”)
- kvánbœnir f pl (“wooing”)
- kvánfang n (“taking a wife”)
- kvánga (“to make a man marry”)
- kvángan (“taking a wife”)
- kvánlauss (“wifeless”)
- kvánríki n (“the domineering of a wife”)
- kvæna (“to make a man marry”)
- kvændr (“a married man”)
- kvæning f (“marriage”)
See also edit
- kona f (“woman”)
References edit
- kván in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.