heiðinn

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse heiðinn. === Adjective === heiðinn (feminine heiðin, neuter heiðið) pagan, heathen ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *haiþīnaz, probably a specifically Christian use of the base of heiðr (“uncultivated land”). Compare Old English hæþen. === Adjective === heiðinn heathen, pagan unbaptized ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Danish: hedensk→ Norwegian Bokmål: hedensk Icelandic: heiðinn Old Swedish: heþin Swedish: heden === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “heiðinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 190; also available at the Internet Archive James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Heiðinn”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.