vinr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᚹᛁᚾᛁᛉ (winiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *winiz (“friend; loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁is, from the root *wenh₁- (“to seek, desire, love, win”). Compare Old English wine, Old Frisian wine, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini.

Noun

vinr m (genitive vinar, plural vinir)

1. friend

Declension

  Declension of vinr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vinr	vinrinn	vinir	vinirnir
accusative	vin	vininn	vini	vinina
dative	vin	vininum	vinum	vinunum
genitive	vinar	vinarins	vina	vinanna

Coordinate terms

• vina f (“female friend”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: vinur
• Faroese: vinur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ven, vin
  • Russenorsk: væn, ven, venn
• Old Swedish: vin
  • Swedish: vän
• Old Danish: win
  • Danish: ven
    • Norwegian Bokmål: venn
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: venn

References

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