hǫfn
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See also: höfn
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *habanō, *habnō (“harbour, haven”).
Noun[edit]
hǫfn f (genitive hafnar, plural hafnir)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of hǫfn (strong ō-stem)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: höfn
- Faroese: havn, høvn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hamn
- Norwegian Bokmål: hamn
- Old Swedish: hamn, hafn
- Swedish: hamn
- Danish: havn
- Norwegian Bokmål: havn
- → Latin: Hafnia (“Copenhagen”) (learned)
References[edit]
- höfn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.