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Old Norse
Etymology
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Adverb
gagnvart
- over against
Preposition
gagnvart
- over against, opposite to
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gagnvart”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive