sveiti
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sveiti m (genitive singular sveita, no plural)
Declension edit
declension of sveiti
Synonyms edit
- (sweat): sviti
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-. Compare Old Saxon swēt, Old English swāt, Old High German sweiz.
Noun edit
sveiti 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 edit
Declension of sveiti (weak an-stem, singular only)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: sveiti, sviti
- Faroese: sveiti, sveitti
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sveite, sveitte
- Norwegian Bokmål: svette
- Old Swedish: svēter, svetter; svēte
- Swedish: svett
- Danish: sved
References edit
- “sveiti”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press