feginn

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse feginn (glad). Cognate with English fain.

Adjective

feginn (comparative fegnari, superlative fegnastur)

  1. happy, pleased, relieved

Declension

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faganaz.

Adjective

feginn

  1. glad, joyful

Declension

Descendants

  • Faroese: fegin
  • Icelandic: feginn
  • Norwegian: fegen
  • Old Swedish: fæghin

References

  • feginn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press