aptann

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === aftann, aptunn, eptann === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs (“evening”). Cognate with Old English ǣfen, Old Frisian ēvend, Old Saxon āvand, Old Dutch avont, Old High German aband. === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɑɸtɑ̄nː/ === Noun === aptann m (genitive aptans, plural aptnar) an evening Óláfs saga helga 131, in 1829, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 308: […] þat varð til tíðinda um aptaninn síð, er myrkt var vorðit, […] […] it happened in the late evening, when in it was dark, […] ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: aftann m Faroese: aftan m Norwegian Nynorsk: aftan m, eftan m; (dialectal) apta f, afta m, efta m Old Swedish: afton, aftan, apton, aptan Swedish: afton c Old Danish: aftæn Danish: aften c Norwegian Bokmål: aften m === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “aptann”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 23 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “aptann”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 18; also available at the Internet Archive