gjarna
Faroese edit
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Adverb edit
gjarna, comparative: heldur, superlative: helst
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Icelandic edit
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Etymology edit
Compare gjarn (“willing”). Cognate with the Swedish gärna, as well as Danish and German gerne.
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Old Norse edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *gernô, adverb form of the adjective *gernaz, whence Old Norse gjarn, of which gjarna is the adverb form. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to yearn for”).
Adverb edit
gjarna (comparative heldr, superlative helzt)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “gjarna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press