sveiti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsveiːtɪ/

  Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

Noun

sveiti m (genitive singular sveita, no plural)

1. (archaic) sweat

   Synonym: sviti

Declension

Declension of sveiti (sg-only masculine)

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	sveiti	sveitinn
accusative	sveita	sveitann
dative	sveita	sveitanum
genitive	sveita	sveitans

Old Norse

Etymology

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

sveiti m

1. sweat
2. (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

Declension

Declension of sveiti (weak an-stem, singular only)

masculine	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	sveiti	sveitinn
accusative	sveita	sveitann
dative	sveita	sveitanum
genitive	sveita	sveitans

Descendants

• Icelandic: sveiti, sviti
• Faroese: sveiti, sveitti
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sveite, sveitte
• Norwegian Bokmål: svette
• Old Swedish: svēter, svetter; svēte
  • Swedish: svett
• Danish: sved

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sveiti”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive