heimr

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

haimr — Old Gutnish
hæimr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, house, village”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), *(t)ḱoimos (“settlement, dwelling”).

Cognate with Old English hām, Old Frisian hām, hēm, Old Saxon hēm, Old Dutch hēm, Old High German heim, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims). See also Finnish heimo.

Pronunciation

(12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛ̃ĩmr̩/

Noun

heimr m (genitive heims, plural heimar)

realm, region within walking distance to a þing parliament, land
world
- Vǫluspá, verse 2, line 5:
  níu man ek heima
  I remember nine worlds
1. (in particular) this world, the world of humans
  liggja milli heims ok Heljar ― to lie between this world and Hel (i.e. between life and death)
  
  koma í heiminn ― to come into this world (i.e. be born)
  - Old Norwegian Homily Book, in 1864, C. R. Unger, Gammel Norsk Homiliebog. Christiania, page 72, line 30:
    En þat er vitanda, at þriar ero tiðer hæims. Æin fyrir log. en onnur undir logum. en þriðia undir miskun.
    But it is known that there are three times in the world. One before the law, another under the law, the third under mercy.
a village, ham (especially in placenames)
a home, abode

Declension

Declension of heimr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	heimr	heimrinn	heimar	heimarnir
accusative	heim	heiminn	heima	heimana
dative	heimi	heiminum	heimum	heimunum
genitive	heims	heimsins	heima	heimanna

Derived terms

eiga ekki heimangengt (“to be bound to stay at home”)
goðheimr (“home of the gods”)
gullheimr (“golden world”)
heim (“homewards”)
heima (“at home”)
heima (“to have a home”)
heimaból (“homestead”)
heimafólk (“household”)
heimahestr (“stallion”)
heimaland (“home estate”)
heimalíð (“household”)
heiman (“from home”)
heimanferð (“journey from home”)
heimanfylgja (“bride's dowry”)
heimanfǫr (“journey from home”)
heimaprestr (“parson”)
heimaríkr (“tyrannical at home”)
heimasæta (“unmarried (of women)”)
heimboð (“invitation”)
heimbǫllr (“the globe”)
Heimdallr (“Heimdall”)
heimdragi (“laggard”)
heimferð (“return home”)
heimfriðr (“home security”)
heimfúss, heimfýsi (“longing for home”)
heimfǫr (“return home”)
heimhamr (“one's own skin”)
heimila (“to give a title or a right”)
heimild (“title, right”)
heimili (“house, homestead”)
heimleiðis (“homewards”)
heimligr (“worldly”)
heimolleikr (“intimace”)
heimolliga (“privately”)
heimolligr (“intimate, private”)
heimreið (“ride home, inroad”)
heimsbygð (“the peopled world”)
heimska (“folly, nonsense”)
heimskr (“foolish, dumb”)
heimsslit (“the end of the world”)
heimsslit (“the end of the world”)
heimssól (“sun”)
heimstǫð (“homestead”)
heimsvist (“living”)
heimsókn (“visit, inroad”)
heimsœkja (“to visit”)
heimván (“prospect of salvation”)
þingheimr (“assembly”)

Descendants

Icelandic: heimur m, heim n
Faroese: heimur m, heim n
Norn: hem
Norwegian Nynorsk: heim m
- → Norwegian Bokmål: heim m
Elfdalian: iem
Old Swedish: hēmber m, hēm n
- Swedish: hem n
  - Finnish: hima
Old Danish: hēm, hiem
- Danish: hjem n
  - Norwegian Bokmål: hjem n
Old Gutnish: haimr
- Gutnish: haim

References

“heimr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
heimr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
heimr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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