vetr
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *wintruz by nasal assimilation. See vintr for more.
Noun edit
vetr m (Old West Norse)
Declension edit
Declension of vetr (strong consonant stem, ar-genitive)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: vetur
- Faroese: vetur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vetter; (dialectal) vetr, vøtur
- Elfdalian: witter
- Old Swedish: vitter, vætter ?
- Gutnish: vittur ?
References edit
- “vetr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press