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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
nafni m (genitive singular nafna, nominative plural nafnar)
- a male that has the same name as another; namesake
- 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson
Krummi krunkar úti,
kallar á nafna sinn:
„Ég fann höfud af hrúti
hrygg og gæruskinn.“
Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
krummi nafni minn.- “Krummi croaks outside,
calling his namesake:
‘I found the head of a ram,
backbone and sheepskin.’
Come now and peck with me,
Krummi, my namesake.”
- Hvað segirðu gott nafni.
- How are you?
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- nafna (female equivalent)
Noun
nafni
- indefinite dative singular of nafn
Anagrams
Old Norse
Etymology
From nafn (“name”) + -i.
Noun
nafni m
- namesake
Declension
Declension of nafni (weak an-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “nafni”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press