sonr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• sunr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”). Cognate with Old English sunu, Old Frisian sunu, Old Saxon sunu, Old High German sunu, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃 (sunus).

Noun

sonr m (genitive sonar, plural synir)

1. son

Declension

  Declension of sonr (strong u-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sonr	sonrinn	synir	synirnir
accusative	son	soninn	sonu, syni	sonuna
dative	syni	syninum	sonum	sonunum
genitive	sonar	sonarins	sona	sonanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: sonur, -son
• Faroese: sonur, -son
• Norn: son
• Norwegian Nynorsk: son, -son; (dialectal) sun’e, sun
• Elfdalian: sun
• Old Swedish: sun, son
  • Swedish: son, -son
• Danish: søn, -sen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sønn
  • German: -sen
• Gutnish: sun
• → Middle English: *-son
  • English: -son

References

• “sonr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press