svanr

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Old Norse

svanr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swanaz (swan), whence also Old English swan (English swan), Old Saxon swan (Low German Swaan), West Frisian swan, Dutch zwaan, and Old High German swan (German Schwan), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (to sound, resound); related to Latin sonare (to sound).

Noun

svanr m (genitive svans, plural svanir)

  1. swan (Cygnus cygnus)

Declension

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Danish: svane c
  • Faroese: svanur m
  • Icelandic: svanur m
  • Norwegian Bokmål: svane f, m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: svane f
  • Swedish: svan c

References

  • svanr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press