hǫfn

From Proto-Germanic *habanō, *habnō (“harbour, haven”).

hǫfn f (genitive hafnar, plural hafnir)

1. port, harbor, haven
2. tenure (of land)

• hafnarljós

• Icelandic: höfn
• Faroese: havn, høvn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hamn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hamn
• Old Swedish: hamn, hafn
  • Swedish: hamn
• Danish: havn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: havn
• → Latin: Hafnia (“Copenhagen”) (learned)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “höfn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 223; also available at the Internet Archive

Partial doublet of hamr (“shroud, shape, guise; amniotic sac”), compare Old Swedish hampn, Swedish hamn, doublet of Old Swedish hamber, Swedish hamm, ham (“shroud, shape, guise; amniotic sac”).

hǫfn f (genitive hafnar, plural hafnir)

1. dress, coat, cloak; partial doublet of hamr (shape, figure, guise, cover, membrane, amniotic sac, afterbirth)
2. fetus

• munnshǫfn (“mouth content”)
• yfirhǫfn (“overcoat”)

• Icelandic: höfn
• Old Swedish: hampn doublet of hamber
  • Swedish: hamn doublet of hamm, ham