hǫfn

== Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Germanic *habanō, *habnō (“harbour, haven”). ==== Noun ==== hǫfn f (genitive hafnar, plural hafnir) port, harbor, haven tenure (of land) ===== Inflection ===== ===== Derived terms ===== hafnarljós ===== Descendants ===== 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) ===== Further reading ===== Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “höfn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 223; also available at the Internet Archive === Etymology 2 === Partial doublet of hamr (“shroud, shape, guise; amniotic sac”), to an earlier *hambn, *hampn, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *hamô (*hamanô?). Compare Old Swedish hampn, Swedish hamn, doublet of Old Swedish hamber, Swedish hamm, ham (“shroud, shape, guise; amniotic sac”). ==== Noun ==== hǫfn f (genitive hafnar, plural hafnir) dress, coat, cloak; partial doublet of hamr (shape, figure, guise, cover, membrane, amniotic sac, afterbirth) fetus ===== Inflection ===== ===== Derived terms ===== munnshǫfn (“mouth content”) yfirhǫfn (“overcoat”) ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: höfn Old Swedish: hampn doublet of hamber Swedish: hamn doublet of hamm, ham