hveiti

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse hveiti, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (“white”). === Noun === hveiti f (genitive singular hveiti, uncountable) hveiti n (genitive singular hveitis, uncountable) wheat (Triticum) ==== Declension ==== == Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse hveiti, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (“white”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkʰveiːtɪ/, /ˈxʷeiːtɪ/ Rhymes: -eiːtɪ === Noun === hveiti n (genitive singular hveitis, no plural) wheat (Triticum) wheat flour ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== hveitikím hveitiklíð hveitikorn == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (“white”). Compare Old English hwǣte (English wheat), Old Saxon hwēti (German Low German Weite, Weit), Dutch weit, Old High German hwaizi, weizi (German Weizen), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 (ƕaiteis). === Noun === hveiti n wheat (Triticum) ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: hveiti Faroese: hveiti Norwegian Nynorsk: kveite; (dialectal) kveiti, gveite, veite → Norwegian Bokmål: kveite (obsolete) Old Swedish: hvēte Swedish: vete, vät Old Danish: hwetæ Danish: hvede Norwegian Bokmål: hvete === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hveiti”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive