nautr

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ganautaz. Cognate with Old English ġenēat.

Noun

nautr m (genitive nauts, plural nautar)

  1. a mate, fellow
  2. a donor, giver
  3. a gift

Declension

  Declension of nautr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative nautr nautrinn nautar nautarnir
accusative naut nautinn nauta nautana
dative nauti nautinum nautum nautunum
genitive nauts nautsins nauta nautanna

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Icelandic: nautur
  • Old Swedish: nø̄ter
  • Old Gutnish: nautr

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “nautr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 447
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “nautr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 309; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
  1. page/309 Internet Archive]
  • “nautr” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen
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