arinn
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse arinn, whence also Danish arne.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
arinn m (genitive singular arins, nominative plural arnar)
DeclensionEdit
declension of arinn
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“hearth, ashes”). See also Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌲𐍉 (azgō), Proto-West Germanic *askā (“ash”).
NounEdit
arinn m
DeclensionEdit
Declension of arinn (strong a-stem)
ReferencesEdit
- arinn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 265