vinr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Norse ᚹᛁᚾᛁᛉ (winiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *winiz (“friend; loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁is, from the root *wenh₁- (“to seek, desire, love, win”). Compare Old English wine, Old Frisian wine, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini. === Noun === vinr m (genitive vinar, plural vinir) friend ==== Declension ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== vina f (“female friend”) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: vinur Faroese: vinur Norwegian Nynorsk: ven, vin Russenorsk: væn, ven, venn Old Swedish: vin Swedish: vän Old Danish: win Danish: ven Norwegian Bokmål: venn → Norwegian Nynorsk: venn === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “vinr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive