vinr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Norse ᚹᛁᚾᛁᛉ (winiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *winiz (“friend; loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁is, from the root *wenh₁- (“to seek, desire, love, win”). Compare Old English wine, Old Frisian wine, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini.
Noun[edit]
vinr m (genitive vinar, plural vinir)
Declension[edit]
Declension of vinr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
Coordinate terms[edit]
- vina f (“female friend”)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: vinur
- Faroese: vinur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ven, vin
- Old Swedish: vin
- Swedish: vän
- Old Danish: win
References[edit]
- “vinr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wenh₁-
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Norse
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Norse
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse masculine nouns
- Old Norse masculine i-stem nouns