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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wahtaz (“speech”).
Older theories tentatively connected the word to vitni (“witness”), from a different root.
Noun
váttr m (genitive váttar, plural vættir)
- a witness, eyewitness
Declension
Declension of váttr (strong u-stem)
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “váttr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive