envig
Swedish
Viking Age envige
Alternative forms
- envige
Etymology
From Early Modern Swedish enwighe, from Old Swedish envighe, from Old Norse einvígi.
Noun
envig n
- (archaic) a melee duel
- 1916 translation by N. E. Hammarstedt of c. 98, Tacitus, Germania
- […] söka de på ett eller annat sätt bortsnappa en fånge, och låta sedan denne i envig mäta sig med en bland deras egna landsmän utvald krigare […]
- […] they seek, by one way or the other, to get hold of a prisoner and then set him for a duel against a warrior chosen from their own folk […]
- 1916 translation by N. E. Hammarstedt of c. 98, Tacitus, Germania
- trial by combat, judicial duel
Declension
| Declension of envig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | envig | enviget | envig | envigen |
| Genitive | envigs | envigets | envigs | envigens |
Further reading
- envig in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- envig in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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