Icelandic

Noun

sveiti m ‎(genitive singular sveita, no plural)

1. (archaic) sweat

Declension

Synonyms

• (sweat): sviti

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- ‎(“to sweat”), *sweyd-. Compare Old Saxon swēt, Old English swāt, Old High German sweiz.

Noun

sveiti m

1. sweat

Descendants

• Danish: sved
• Faroese: sveiti, sveitti
• Icelandic: sveiti, sviti
• Norwegian

  Bokmål: svette

  Nynorsk: sveitte

• Swedish: svett

References

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