undorn
See also: Undorn
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *undurniz. Cognate with Old English undern, Old Frisian undern, Old Saxon undorn, Old High German untarn, untorn, the first part of Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (undaurnimats, “breakfast, midday meal”).
Noun
editundorn m (genitive undornar, plural undornir)
- mid-afternoon, 3 p.m.
- mid-forenoon, 9 a.m.
- Bjarkö-Ret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 308:
- […] of hafa unninn eidinn fyrr en hringi undurn at kristſkirkiu.
- […] shall have taken the oath ere the bells at the church ring at undern.
- Bjarkö-Ret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 308:
Declension
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Declension of undorn (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
masculine | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | undorn | undorninn | undornir | undornirnir |
accusative | undorn | undorninn | undorni | undornina |
dative | undorn | undorninum | undornum | undornunum |
genitive | undornar | undornarins | undorna | undornanna |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “undorn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- undorn in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- undorn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.