ǫnn

See also: onn, önn, õnn, -œnn, and Onn

Old Norse

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *azaniz, whence also German Ernte (“harvest”).

Noun

ǫnn f (genitive annar, plural annir)

  1. work, business, trouble
  2. (plural only) working season

Declension

Declension of ǫnn (strong i-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ǫnn ǫnnin annir annirnar
accusative ǫnn ǫnnina annir annirnar
dative ǫnn ǫnninni ǫnnum ǫnnunum
genitive annar annarinnar anna annanna

Descendants

  • Icelandic: önn
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: onn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: onn
  • Old Swedish: an, and
    • Swedish: (archaic or dialectal) and, ann

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “önn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 529; also available at the Internet Archive
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