sonr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• sunr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”). Cognate with Old English sunu, Old Frisian sunu, Old Saxon sunu, Old High German sunu, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃 (sunus).

Noun

sonr m (genitive sonar, plural synir)

1. son

Declension

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masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sonr	sonrinn	synir	synirnir
accusative	son	soninn	sonu, syni	sonuna
dative	syni	syninum	sonum	sonunum
genitive	sonar	sonarins	sona	sonanna

  Declension of sonr (strong u-stem)

Descendants

• Icelandic: sonur, -son
• Faroese: sonur, -son
• Norn: son
• Norwegian Nynorsk: son, -son; (dialectal) sun’e, sun
• Elfdalian: sun
• Old Swedish: sun, son
  • Swedish: son, -son
• Danish: søn, -sen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sønn
  • German: -sen
• Gutnish: sun
• → Middle English: *-son
  • English: -son

References

• “sonr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press