sveiti

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sveiti m (genitive singular sveita, no plural)

  1. (archaic) sweat

Declension

declension of sveiti
m-w1 singular
indefinite definite
nominative sveiti sveitinn
accusative sveita sveitann
dative sveita sveitanum
genitive sveita sveitans

Synonyms

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-. Compare Old Saxon swēt, Old English swāt, Old High German sweiz.

Noun

sveiti m

  1. sweat
  2. (poetic) blood

Declension

  Declension of sveiti (weak an-stem, singular only)
masculine singular
indefinite definite
nominative sveiti sveitinn
accusative sveita sveitann
dative sveita sveitanum
genitive sveita sveitans

Descendants

References

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