vetr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wintruz by nasal assimilation. See "vintr" for more.

Noun

vetr m (genitive vetrar, plural vetr)

1. (Old West Norse) winter

Related terms

• vintr (Old East Norse)

Descendants

• Faroese: vetur
• Icelandic: vetur
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: vetter

• Elfdalian: witter
• Old Swedish: vitter, vætter ?
• Gutnish: vittur ?

References

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