sveiti – Old Norse noun declension

Old Norse noun forms of sveiti

Noun: sveiti
Gender: m

Nominative

Sg. Indef.sveiti
Sg. Def.sveitinn

Genitive

Sg. Indef.sveita
Sg. Def.sveitans

Dative

Sg. Indef.sveita
Sg. Def.sveitanum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.sveita
Sg. Def.sveitann

Sample Sentences

  • […] már drekkr suðr ór sôrum sveita […] (In the south drinks the sea-gull of blood [RAVEN/EAGLE] out of wounds) [1093–1103, King Magnús barefoot Óláfsson, loose verse 3]

Nouns inflected like sveiti

funi, ofsi, rosi, sveiti,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-. Compare Old Saxon swēt, Old English swāt, Old High German sweiz.

Verbs referencing "sveiti"

Old English Nouns swat, Swedish Nouns svett, Icelandic Nouns sviti, Danish Nouns sved, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns svette, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sveitte, Icelandic Nouns sveiti, Faroese Nouns sveitti.

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