kvernsteinn

Old Norse

Etymology

From kvern (“quern”) +‎ steinn (“stone”).

Noun

kvernsteinn m (genitive kvernsteins)

1. millstone, quernstone

Declension

  Declension of kvernsteinn (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kvernsteinn	kvernsteinninn	kvernsteinar	kvernsteinarnir
accusative	kvernstein	kvernsteininn	kvernsteina	kvernsteinana
dative	kvernsteini	kvernsteininum	kvernsteinum	kvernsteinunum
genitive	kvernsteins	kvernsteinsins	kvernsteina	kvernsteinanna

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvernstein
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvernstein

References

• “kvernsteinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press