hverr

== Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Germanic *hweraz, whence also Old English hwer and Old High German wer. Ultimately from the same root as Irish coire (“kettle, cauldron”), Welsh pair, Sanskrit चरु (carú), Russian чара (čara, “bowl”). ==== Noun ==== hverr m cauldron, boiler Synonym: ketill (Iceland) hot spring ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: hver m === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *hwarjaz (“which, what (of many)”), *hwarjazuh (“each”), cognate with Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌹𐍃 (ƕarjis, “which”), 𐍈𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌹𐌶𐌿𐌷 (ƕarjizuh, “each”). The meaning "who", "which", rather comes from Proto-Germanic *hwaz; see *hver. ==== Pronoun ==== hverr (feminine hver, neuter hvert) who, which (of many) each, every ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== hvergi hvernig ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: hver Faroese: hvør Norwegian Nynorsk: kvar, kven; (dialectal) kver Old Swedish: hvar (acc. fem. hvaria) Swedish: var, varje, (pre-1906 spelling) hvar, hvarje Danish: hver Norwegian Bokmål: hver Old Gutnish: hwer === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hverr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive