Faroese

Alternative forms

• æður (Suðuroy)

Noun

æðr f (genitive singular æðrar, plural æðrar)

1. vein, vessel

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *ēdrǭ, *ēþrǭ; whence also Old English ǣder, ǣdre, Old High German ādara (German Ader).

Noun

æðr f (genitive æðar, dative æði, plural æðar)

1. vein

Declension

Descendants

In Old Icelandic, the word lost its radical r, it being reinterpreted as a nominative ending, and comes to be nominative æðr, accusative and dative æði, genitive æðar, plural æðar, leading to the modern Icelandic æð, whereas the radical r is preserved in Faroese, as well as in the other Nordic languages.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain, but perhaps related to either Sanskrit आति ‎(āti, “a type of aquatic bird”)|tr=āti or Latin avis ‎(“bird”).

Noun

æðr f (genitive æðar, dative æði, plural æðar)

1. eider

Declension

Descendants

References

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.