sveinn
See also: Sveinn
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse sveinn, from Proto-Germanic *swainaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsveinn m (genitive singular sveins, nominative plural sveinar)
Declension
editDeclension of sveinn | ||||
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m-s1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sveinn | sveinninn | sveinar | sveinarnir |
accusative | svein | sveininn | sveina | sveinana |
dative | sveini | sveininum | sveinum | sveinunum |
genitive | sveins | sveinsins | sveina | sveinanna |
Derived terms
editOld Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *swainaz (“relative, young man, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“oneself; separate; apart”), properly one's own.
Other reflexes of PG *swainaz include Old English swān (modern English swain), Old High German swein.
Noun
editsveinn m (genitive sveins, plural sveinar)
Declension
edit Declension of sveinn
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “sveinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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