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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse sveinn, from Proto-Germanic *swainaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
sveinn m (genitive singular sveins, nominative plural sveinar)
- boy, lad
Declension
Declension of sveinn (masculine)
Derived terms
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *swainaz (“relative, young man, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“oneself; separate; apart”), properly one's own.
Other reflexes of PG *swainaz include Old English swān (modern English swain), Old High German swein.
Noun
sveinn m (genitive sveins, plural sveinar)
- boy, lad
- servant, lackey
Declension
Descendants
References
- “sveinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press