hundr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hundaz, whence also Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch hund, Old High German hunt, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷn̥tós, from *ḱwṓ (“dog”).

Noun

hundr m (genitive hunds, plural hundar)

1. a dog

   Synonym: rakki

Declension

Declension of hundr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hundr	hundrinn	hundar	hundarnir
accusative	hund	hundinn	hunda	hundana
dative	hundi	hundinum	hundum	hundunum
genitive	hunds	hundsins	hunda	hundanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: hundur
• Faroese: hundur
• Norn: hund
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hund, (dialectal) hund’e, hónd’e
• Old Swedish: hunder
  • Swedish: hund
    • → Finnish: hunttu
• Old Danish: hund
  • Danish: hund
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hund
  • Scanian: hońń
• Gutnish: hund

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hundr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive