unnr
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *unþiz, *unþī (“wave”). Cognate with Old English ȳþ, Old Saxon ūthia, Old High German undea, unda.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
unnr f (genitive unnar, plural unnir)
- (poetic) a wave (an undulation in a body of water)
- Vǫluspá, stanza 3, lines 3–4:
- […] vara sandr né sær
né svalar unnir […]- […] there was no sand nor sea
nor gelid waves […]
- […] there was no sand nor sea
- Vǫluspá, stanza 3, lines 3–4:
Declension edit
Declension of unnr (strong ijō-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: unnur f
References edit
- “unnr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press