gjarn

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse gjarn, from Proto-Germanic *gernaz.

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gjarn (comparative gjarnari, superlative gjarnastur)

  1. willing, eager, keen

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *gernaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (to yearn).

Adjective[edit]

gjarn

  1. eager, desirous
    • 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 5:
      [] þás árgjǫrn / Jóta dolgi
      Svía kind / of sóa skyldi.
      [] Then, when the harvest-eager / kin of the Swedes
      had to sacrifice / the enemy of the Jutes.
  2. (with dative) willing to follow one

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Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: gjarn
  • Faroese: gjarnur
  • Old Swedish: giærn

References[edit]

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