sveiti
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsveiti m (genitive singular sveita, no plural)
Declension
editOld Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-. Compare Old Saxon swēt, Old English swāt, Old High German sweiz.
Noun
editsveiti m
- sweat
- (poetic) blood
- 1093–1103, King Magnús barefoot Óláfsson, loose verse 3
- […] már drekkr suðr ór sôrum sveita […]
- In the south drinks the sea-gull of blood [RAVEN/EAGLE] out of wounds
- 1093–1103, King Magnús barefoot Óláfsson, loose verse 3
Declension
editmasculine | singular | |
---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sveiti | sveitinn |
accusative | sveita | sveitann |
dative | sveita | sveitanum |
genitive | sveita | sveitans |
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: sveiti, sviti
- Faroese: sveiti, sveitti
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sveite, sveitte
- Norwegian Bokmål: svette
- Old Swedish: svēter, svetter; svēte
- Swedish: svett
- Danish: sved
Further reading
edit- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sveiti”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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