þénari

Old Norse

Etymology

From þéna (“to serve”) +‎ -ari.

Noun

þénari m

servant

Conjugation

Declension of þénari (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	þénari	þénarinn	þénarar	þénararnir
accusative	þénara	þénarann	þénara	þénarana
dative	þénara	þénaranum	þénurum	þénurunum
genitive	þénara	þénarans	þénara	þénaranna

Descendants

Icelandic: þénari
Faroese: tænari
Norwegian Nynorsk: tenar
Swedish: tjänare c
Danish: tjener c
- Norwegian Bokmål: tjener

References

þénari in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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