sveinn
See also: Sveinn
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse sveinn, from Proto-Germanic *swainaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sveinn m (genitive singular sveins, nominative plural sveinar)
Declension edit
declension of sveinn
Derived terms edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *swainaz (“relative, young man, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“oneself; separate; apart”), properly one's own.
Other reflexes of PG *swainaz include Old English swān (modern English swain), Old High German swein.
Noun edit
sveinn m (genitive sveins, plural sveinar)
Declension edit
Declension of sveinn
Descendants edit
References edit
- “sveinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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