himinn

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse himinn, from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cloud cover, sky”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhɪːmɪnː/ === Noun === himinn m (genitive singular himins, nominative plural himnar) sky, the heavens Synonyms: (obsolete) andlangur, élhöll (in the plural) heaven, paradise Synonym: himnaríki ==== Declension ==== === See also === í sjöunda himni == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cloud cover, sky”). Cognate with Old English heofon, Old Saxon hevan, Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱemen-, *ḱemer- (“stone, cloud, sky”). === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈhĩmĩnː/ === Noun === himinn m (genitive himins, plural himnar) the heavens, sky Jóns saga 33, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 245: […] var svá skirt veðr ok hreint, at hvergi sá ský á himni […] […] the weather was so clear and bright that there were no clouds in the sky […] (Christianity, especially in the plural) heaven, paradise Þorláks saga 6, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 95: […] dýrki þér föður yðarn, þann er á himnum er. […] worshipped thy Father, who is in heaven. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: himinn, hifinn Faroese: himin Old Swedish: himin Old Danish: himæn Old Gutnish: himin === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “himinn”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 262 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “himinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 198; also available at the Internet Archive