svín
Icelandic
/sviːn/
noun
Definitions
- pig, swine animal of the family Suidae
- swine contemptible person; one who is chauvinist, exploitative, very ill-mannered or uncleanly
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse svín derived from Proto-Germanic *swīną derived from Proto-Indo-European *sū-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sū-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- suppa Latin
- *suH- Proto-Indo-European
- *sū- Proto-Indo-European
- svin Norwegian Bokmål
- *suf- Proto-Germanic
- *swīną Proto-Germanic
- *sūpaną Proto-Germanic
- *sūz Proto-Germanic
- svin Swedish
- svin Norwegian Nynorsk
- swīn Old English
- svín Old Norse
- svin Danish
- *svinьja Proto-Slavic
- jarðsvín Icelandic
- jörð Icelandic
- kjöt Icelandic
- svínakjöt Icelandic
- swīn Old High German
- svín Faroese
- 𐍃𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽 Gothic
- *swīn gmw-pro
- *swīn Old Dutch
- *svijnē Proto-Samic
- svyn Westrobothnian