dofinn
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse dofinn (“of a limb, to be dead”).
Adjective
dofinn (comparative dofnari, superlative dofnastur)
Old Norse
Etymology
Related to Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dheubh- (“smoke, mist, -> daze, stupefaction”).
Adjective
dofinn
Descendants
References
- “dofinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press