hundr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hundaz, whence also Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch hund, Old High German hunt, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷn̥tós, from *ḱwṓ (“dog”).
Noun
hundr m (genitive hunds, plural hundar)
- a dog
Declension
Declension of hundr (strong a-stem)
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hundr | hundrinn | hundar | hundarnir |
| accusative | hund | hundinn | hunda | hundana |
| dative | hundi | hundinum | hundum | hundunum |
| genitive | hunds | hundsins | hunda | hundanna |
Descendants
- Faroese: hundur
- Icelandic: hundur
- Norn: hund
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: hund
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hund
- Scanian: hońń
- Old Swedish: hunder
- Swedish: hund
- → Finnish: hunttu
- Swedish: hund
- Old Danish: hund
- Danish: hund
- Gutnish: hund
- Westrobothnian: hunn, heond, höund (< *húndr)
References
- hundr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press