heiður
Faroese
/ˈhaijʊr/
noun
Definitions
- honour, honor, award
- blue skies and sun
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse heiðr (honor, heath, worth, bright, moor, dignity) inherited from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (state, condition, manner, appearance, character, kind, quality, personality, person, rank, way).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*haiduz
Gloss
state, condition, manner, appearance, character, kind, quality, personality, person, rank, way
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
人
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *(s)kayt- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kāy- Proto-Indo-European
- *haiduz Proto-Germanic
- *haiþī Proto-Germanic
- heider Norwegian Nynorsk
- *-hǣd Old English
- -had Old English
- -hād Old English
- had Old English
- hād Old English
- heiðr Old Norse
- hede Danish
- hæder Danish
- heiði Icelandic
- heiður Icelandic
- -heit Old High German
- heit Old High German
- -s- Faroese
- heiði Faroese
- heiðurslimaskapur Faroese
- heiðurslimur Faroese
- heiðursløn Faroese
- limaskapur Faroese
- limur Faroese
- løn Faroese
- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 Gothic
- -heid Old Dutch
- -heit Middle Low German
- -hed Old Saxon
- heþ Old Swedish
- hēdher Old Swedish