undorn

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *undurniz. Cognate with Old English undern, Old Frisian undern, Old Saxon undorn, Old High German untarn, untorn, the first part of Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (undaurnimats, “breakfast, midday meal”). === Noun === undorn m (genitive undornar, plural undornir) mid-afternoon, 3 p.m. Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 7-10, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2: […] morgin hétu / ok miðjan dag, / undorn ok aptan, / árum at telja. […] morning they named / and midday, / undern and evening, / years to count. mid-forenoon, 9 a.m. Bjarkö-Ret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 308: […] of hafa unninn eidinn fyrr en hringi undurn at kristſkirkiu. […] shall have taken the oath ere the bells at the church ring at undern. ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “undorn”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 653 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “undorn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 450; also available at the Internet Archive