munnr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• muðr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-. Compare Old English mūþ, Old Saxon mūth, Old Frisian mūth, mund, mond, Old Dutch mund, Old High German mund, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs).

Noun

munnr m

1. mouth

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Descendants

• Icelandic: munnur
• Faroese: munnur, muður
• Norwegian Nynorsk: munn
• Old Swedish: munder
  • Swedish: mun
• Danish: mund
  • Norwegian Bokmål: munn

References

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