Wiktionary

gnist

Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse gneisti, from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô (“spark”), from *ga- + *hnaistô (“spark”), perhaps from the ultimate source of German knistern (“to crackle”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɡnist/, [ɡ̊nisd̥]

Noun edit

gnist c (singular definite gnisten, plural indefinite gnister)

  1. spark

Inflection edit

Declension of gnist
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gnist gnisten gnister gnisterne
genitive gnists gnistens gnisters gnisternes

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gnaistan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 183

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse gneisti.

Noun edit

gnist m (definite singular gnisten, indefinite plural gnister, definite plural gnistene)

  1. a spark

See also edit

References edit

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