reynir
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse reynir (“rowan”).
Noun edit
reynir m (genitive singular reynis, no plural)
Declension edit
declension of reynir
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
reynir
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).
Noun edit
reynir m (genitive reynis)
Declension edit
Declension of reynir (strong ija-stem)
Derived terms edit
- reynilundr m (“rowan grove”)
- reynirunnr m (“rowan tree”)
- reyniviðr m (“rowan wood”)
- reynivǫndr m (“a wand from a rowan tree”)
Descendants edit
Exactly what variation of the word the various descendants are descended from, is somewhat unclear.
- Icelandic: reynir
- Norwegian Nynorsk: raun, rogn; (dialectal) røyne
- Norwegian Bokmål: rogn
- Danish: røn
- Swedish: rönn
- → English: rowan
References edit
- “reynir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Norse ᚱᚨᚢᚾᛁᛃᚨᛉ (raunijaʀ, “tester”), equivalent to reyna + -ir.
Noun edit
reynir m (genitive reynis)
Declension edit
Declension of reynir (strong ija-stem)
Related terms edit
- reyna (“to test”)
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
reynir