unnr
Old Norse
FWOTD – 27 September 2013
Alternative forms
- uðr
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *unþiz, *unþī (“wave”). Cognate with Old English ȳþ, Old Saxon ūthia, Old High German undea, unda.
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈũnːr̩/
Noun
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
Declension of unnr (strong ijō-stem)
feminine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | unnr | unnrin | unnir | unnirnar |
accusative | unni | unnina | unnir | unnirnar |
dative | unni | unninni | unnum | unnunum |
genitive | unnar | unnarinnar | unna | unnanna |
Descendants
- Icelandic: unnur f
References
- “unnr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press