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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norse *ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᚨ (*ragina) (attested in ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᚨᚲᚢᛞᛟ (raginakudo)), Proto-Germanic *raginą (“advice, decision”). Cognate with Old English reġn-, Old Saxon regin-, regan-, Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽 (ragin).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈrɛɣɪ̃n/
Noun
regin n pl
- (plural only, Germanic paganism) the gods, the ruling powers
- Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 1-2, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
Þá gengu regin ǫll / á rǫkstóla, - Then went all the gods / on the seats of doom,
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Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “regin”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 488
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “regin”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 333; also available at the Internet Archive
Swedish
Noun
regin
- definite singular of regi
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