undir

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse undir, from Proto-Germanic *under.

Preposition

undir

1. (with accusative) (motion) under
2. (with dative) (location) under

   Antonym: yfir

Derived terms

• ganga undir
• leggja land undir fót
• skrifa undir
• undir beltisstað
• undir eins
• undir fjögur augu
• undirskrift

 

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *under.

Preposition

undir

1. (with accusative or dative) under, underneath

   Antonym: yfir

Usage notes

Whether undir takes accusative or dative, depends on the sense.

• With the accusative case, it signifies movement towards something or someone. In other words it has an allative sense.
• With the dative case, it signifies positioning and location somewhere. In other words it has a locative sense.

Related terms

• undan

Descendants

• Icelandic: undir
• Faroese: undir
• Norn: onjder, onder
• Norwegian Bokmål: under
• Norwegian Nynorsk: under
• Old Swedish: undir
  • Swedish: under
• Danish: under
• Gutnish: undar, unda, undur

References

• “undir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press