galinn

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse galinn, from gala. Compare galdur (“magic”). === Adjective === galinn (comparative galnari, superlative galnastur) insane, crazy frenzied, voluptuous, sensual, furious, frantic ==== Declension ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *galanaz, past participle of *galaną (“to shout; to sing”). === Participle === galinn (feminine galin, neuter galit) past participle of gala mad, frantic enchanted ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Old Danish: galæn Danish: gal Norwegian Bokmål: gal → Norwegian Nynorsk: gal, galen Faroese: galin Icelandic: galinn Norwegian Nynorsk: galen; (dialectal) gælin, gælen Old Swedish: galin Swedish: galen === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “galinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive