hamnlöpare
Swedish
Etymology
Compound of hamn (“gestalt, shape”) + löpare (“runner; traveller”), borrowed from Icelandic hamhleypa. Attested since 1697.
Noun
hamnlöpare c
- (archaic) a shapeshifter, someone or something who travels in the shape of another
- Synonym: hamnskiftare
- 1742–1743, Jacob Henrik Mörk, Adalriks Och Giöthildas Äfwentyr. Förra Delen, page 138:
- En dag kom en Örn, och lade sig öfwer dem med utslagna wingar. Alla Sudnackar och Hamnlöpare ropade at Inge, som förde en Örn i sitt Wapn, skulle blifwa en Herre öfwer Bjarmerna, och deras Land […]
- One day an Eagle came and lay over them with its wings outstretched. All Deceivers and Shapeshifters shouted that Inge, who carried an Eagle in their Weapon, would become a Lord over the Bjarms, and their Land […]
Declension
| Declension of hamnlöpare | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | hamnlöpare | hamnlöparen | hamnlöpare | hamnlöparna |
| Genitive | hamnlöpares | hamnlöparens | hamnlöpares | hamnlöparnas |
References
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