hvǫnn

See also: hvonn, hvönn, and hvønn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hwannō (whence also Northern Sami faddnu (“angelica”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwenHdʰ-.

Noun

hvǫnn f (genitive hvannar, plural hvannir)

1. angelica (genus Angelica)

Declension

  Declension of hvǫnn (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hvǫnn	hvǫnnin	hvannir	hvannirnar
accusative	hvǫnn	hvǫnnina	hvannir	hvannirnar
dative	hvǫnn	hvǫnninni	hvǫnnum	hvǫnnunum
genitive	hvannar	hvannarinnar	hvanna	hvannanna

Descendants

• Danish: kvan c, kvanne c
• Faroese: hvonn f
• Icelandic: hvönn f
• Norwegian (Nynorsk): kvann f, kvanne f or m
• Swedish: kvanne c, kvann c (in dialects also kvanna f)
• → Greenlandic: kuaneq

References

• kvanne in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)