hvítur
Faroese
[ˈkvʊiːjtʊɹ]
adj
Definitions
- white
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse hvítr inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz (white) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos (shine, bright).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱweytos
Gloss
shine, bright
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *ḱweydós Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱweytos Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱweytos, ḱweydos Proto-Indo-European
- hvit Norwegian Bokmål
- *hwītaz Proto-Germanic
- kvit Norwegian Nynorsk
- hwit Old English
- hwīt Old English
- श्वेत Sanskrit
- hvítleikr Old Norse
- hvítr Old Norse
- *světъ Proto-Slavic
- hvítur Icelandic
- سپهر Persian
- wiz Old High German
- wīz Old High German
- bjørn Faroese
- drunnhvíti Faroese
- drunnur Faroese
- hvítabjørn Faroese
- hvítleykur Faroese
- leykur Faroese
- 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- *hwīt gmw-pro
- *ćwaytás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- hwit Old Saxon
- hwīt Old Saxon
- hviter Old Swedish
- hviter, hvīter Old Swedish
- gwit Westrobothnian
- hwīt Old Frisian
- wīt Old Frisian
- spyt' Middle Persian
- hwit Old Danish
- wajs Vilamovian
- wait Elfdalian
- hvid Norn
- wichtgata Crimean Gothic