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Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse sveinn, from Proto-Germanic *swainaz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sveinn m (genitive singular sveins, nominative plural sveinar)
Declension[edit]
declension of sveinn
Derived terms[edit]
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *swainaz (“relative, young man, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“oneself; separate; apart”), properly one's own.
Other reflexes of PG *swainaz include Old English swān (modern English swain), Old High German swein.
Noun[edit]
sveinn m (genitive sveins, plural sveinar)
Declension[edit]
Declension of sveinn
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “sveinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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