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Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse mjǫðm.
Pronunciation
Noun
mjødn f (genitive singular mjadnar, plural mjadnir or mjadnar)
- hip (os coxæ)
Declension
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse mjǫðm, from Proto-Germanic *medumō.
Noun
mjødn f (definite singular mjødna, indefinite plural mjødnar or mjødner, definite plural mjødnane or mjødnene)
- (dialectal) alternative form of mjødm
1985, Aslaug Høydal, Beerseba til Susanborg, Oslo: Dreyer, page 56:Bringa og armane var av sylv, buken og mjødnane av kopar, lår og leggjer av jarn.- The chest and the arms were of silver, the stomach and the hips of copper, the thighs and calves of iron.
1922, Aamund Salveson, Trond Lauperak, page 23:Ein blodsdrope hadde sett seg fast i den eine mjødni hennar[.]- A drop of blood had gotten stuck in her hip.
1919, Torgeir Bjørneraa, Dyresogor, Kristiania: Norli, page 133:Men far vart halt for resten av livetidi av bitet i mjødni.- But father was limp for the rest of his lifetime from the bite in his hip.
References
- “mjødm”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
- Ivar Aasen (1850) “Mjødn”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000