Noun: kyn
Gender: n
Declension:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | kyn |
| Sg. Def. | kynið |
| Pl. Indef. | kyn |
| Pl. Def. | kynin |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | kyns |
| Sg. Def. | kynsins |
| Pl. Indef. | kynja |
| Pl. Def. | kynjanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | kyni |
| Sg. Def. | kyninu |
| Pl. Indef. | kynjum |
| Pl. Def. | kynjunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | kyn |
| Sg. Def. | kynið |
| Pl. Indef. | kyn |
| Pl. Def. | kynin |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like kyn
leiðarstef,
aðalbláber,
hófskegg,
páskaegg,
ljósker,
flákaský,
múltuber,
kirsuber,
jarðarber,
þokuský,
él,
dý,
mý,
bý,
ný,
leirker,
annes,
partý,
þil,
fræ, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Norse kyn, from Proto-Germanic *kunją, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
2. Cognate with Faroese kyn, Danish køn, Norwegian kjønn, Swedish kön, English kin, Dutch kunne, as well as, more distantly, Latin genus (“kind, gender”) (whence English gender). See: Old Norse Nouns '
kyn', Latin Nouns '
genus', English Nouns '
gender'.
Verbs referencing "kyn"
Faroese Nouns
kyn, Swedish Nouns
kön, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
kjønn.
Translations