nafni
See also: -nafni
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nafni m (genitive singular nafna, nominative plural nafnar)
- a male that has the same name as another; namesake
- 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson
- Krummi krunkar úti,
kallar á nafna sinn:
„Ég fann höfud af hrúti
hrygg og gæruskinn.“
Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
krummi nafni minn.- “Krummi croaks outside,
calling his namesake:
‘I found the head of a ram,
backbone and sheepskin.’
Come now and peck with me,
Krummi, my namesake.”
- “Krummi croaks outside,
- Hvað segirðu gott nafni.
- How are you?
- 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson
Declension edit
declension of nafni
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- nafna (female equivalent)
Noun edit
nafni
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
nafni m
Declension edit
Declension of nafni (weak an-stem)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: nafni
References edit
- “nafni”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press