munr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *muniz (“mind, memory, desire”).

Noun

munr m

mind
- c. 1180, Gamli kanóki, Harmsól stanza 3.1-4:
  send þú yðvarn anda, · einskepjandi, hreinan
  mér, þanns mitt of fǿri · munar grand heðan, landa
  Send your pure ghost to me, O sole creator of lands;
  that one which might carry my mind’s grief away from here.
will, desire, delight
munafullan ― full of pleasures

munstǿrandi ― joy-increaser
- c. 1010, Eyjólfr dáðaskáld, Bandadrápa klofstef.1-2:
  Dregr land at mun banda / Eirekr und sik […]
  Eric draws land under himself at the will of the gods […]
difference

Declension

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Declension of *munr* (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	munr	munrinn	munir	munirnir
accusative	mun	muninn	muni	munina
dative	mun	muninum	munum	mununum
genitive	munar	munarins	muna	munanna

Derived terms

burðamunr m (“difference of birth”)

Descendants

Icelandic: munur
Faroese: munur
Norwegian: mun
Old Swedish: mon
- → Swedish: mån
Old Danish: mun
- Danish: mon (“worth, benefit (archaic)”)

Further reading

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “munr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
The Skaldic Project