Noun: heimr
Gender: m
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | heimr |
| Sg. Def. | heimrinn |
| Pl. Indef. | heimar |
| Pl. Def. | heimarnir |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | heims |
| Sg. Def. | heimsins |
| Pl. Indef. | heima |
| Pl. Def. | heimanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | heimi |
| Sg. Def. | heiminum |
| Pl. Indef. | heimum |
| Pl. Def. | heimunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | heim |
| Sg. Def. | heiminn |
| Pl. Indef. | heima |
| Pl. Def. | heimana |
Sample Sentences
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níu man ek heima (I remember nine worlds) [Vǫluspá, verse 2, line 5]
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liggja milli heims ok Heljar (to lie between this world and Hel)
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koma í heiminn (to come into this world)
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En þat er vitanda, at þriar ero tiðer hæims. Æin fyrir log. en onnur undir logum. en þriðia undir miskun. (But it is known that there are three times in the world. One before the law, another under the law, the third under mercy.) [Old Norwegian Homily Book, in 1864, C. R. Unger, Gammel Norsk Homiliebog. Christiania, page 72, line 30]
Nouns inflected like heimr
skarfr,
øruggleikr,
stríðleikr,
greypleikr,
mildleikr,
hildileikr,
þykkleikr,
úfríðleikr,
vitrleikr,
jarldómr,
kunnleikr,
slœgleikr,
auraskortr,
tíðleikr,
roskinleikr,
horskleikr,
sandmelr,
døkkleikr,
skærleikr,
værleikr, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, house, village”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), *(t)ḱoimos (“settlement, dwelling”).
2. Cognate with Old English hām, Old Frisian hām, hēm, Old Saxon hēm, Old Dutch hēm, Old High German heim, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims). See also Finnish heimo. See: Gothic Nouns '
𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃', Finnish Nouns '
heimo'.
Verbs referencing "heimr"
Faroese Nouns
heimur, Icelandic Nouns
heimur, Danish Nouns
hjem, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
hjem, Middle English Nouns
hom.
Translations