hǫfn
See also: höfn
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *habanō, *habnō (“harbour, haven”).
Noun
edithǫfn f (genitive hafnar, plural hafnir)
Inflection
edit Declension of hǫfn (strong ō-stem)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Icelandic: höfn
- Faroese: havn, høvn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hamn
- Norwegian Bokmål: hamn
- Old Swedish: hamn, hafn
- Swedish: hamn
- Danish: havn
- Norwegian Bokmål: havn
- → Latin: Hafnia (“Copenhagen”) (learned)
References
edit- höfn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.