svanr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”), whence also Old English swan (English swan), Old Saxon swan (Low German Swaan), West Frisian swan, Dutch zwaan, and Old High German swan (German Schwan), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”); related to Latin sonare (to sound).

Noun

svanr m (genitive svans, plural svanir)

1. swan (Cygnus cygnus)

Declension

Declension of svanr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	svanr	svanrinn	svanir	svanirnir
accusative	svan	svaninn	svani	svanina
dative	svani	svaninum	svǫnum	svǫnunum
genitive	svans	svansins	svana	svananna

Synonyms

• álpt (alpt, ǫlpt)

Descendants

• Danish: svane c
• Faroese: svanur m
• Icelandic: svanur m
• Norwegian Bokmål: svane f, m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svane f
• Swedish: svan c

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “svanr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive