sveiti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsveiːtɪ/
Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

Noun

sveiti m (genitive singular sveita, no plural)

(archaic) sweat

Declension

declension of sveiti

	indefinite	definite
m-w1	singular
nominative	sveiti	sveitinn
accusative	sveita	sveitann
dative	sveita	sveitanum
genitive	sveita	sveitans

Synonyms

(sweat): sviti

Old Norse

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.

Noun

sveiti m

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

Declension

Declension of sveiti (weak an-stem, singular only)

masculine	singular
masculine	indefinite	definite
nominative	sveiti	sveitinn
accusative	sveita	sveitann
dative	sveita	sveitanum
genitive	sveita	sveitans

Descendants

Icelandic: sveiti, sviti
Faroese: sveiti, sveitti
Norwegian Nynorsk: sveite, sveitte
Norwegian Bokmål: svette
Old Swedish: svēter, svetter; svēte
- Swedish: svett
Danish: sved

References

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

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