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Faroese
Pronunciation
Article
einir m
- masculine nominative plural of ein
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse einir, ultimately from Latin jūniperus. Cognate with Faroese eini(ber), Danish ene, Swedish en, Norwegian eine.
Noun
einir m (genitive singular einis, no plural)
- juniper (Juniperus communis)
Declension
Declension of einir (sg-only masculine)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Numeral
einir
- nominative masculine plural of einn (“one”)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
einir
- nominative masculine plural of einn (“alone”)
Old Norse
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin ziniperus (perhaps via a Western Romance form with /b/ for /p/) understood as a compound with ber (“berry”) for the juniper berry,[1] although a reconstructed Proto-Germanic *ainijaz[2] or *jainijaz[3] from a Proto-Indo-European acrostatic n-stem noun *h₁óy-n- ~ *h₁éy-n-s, collective formation *h₁oy-n-yo-, has been fancied with reference to the (itself deemed borrowed) Classical Latin iūniperus and (barely identified) Hittite 𒂊𒅀𒀭 (e-i̯a-an /ei̯an-/, “(a kind of) evergreen tree (yew?)”).
Noun
einir m (genitive einis)
- juniper
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ This was already understood by Karl Schiller and August Lübben in their 1875 Middle Low German dictionary page 639. We link the Middle Low German forms at the Swedish entry as its descendants.
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*ainja-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 12
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*jainjaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 205
Further reading
- page/107 Internet Archive]