hyrna

From Old Norse hyrna, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ. Related to horn (“an angle, a corner”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪrtna/
• Rhymes: -ɪrtna

hyrna f (genitive singular hyrnu, nominative plural hyrnur)

1. a carton in the shape of a tetrahedron or a triangular pyramid
2. (geometry, topology) a simplex

• ferna
• mjólkurferna
• mjólkurpoki
• þríhyrningur

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From Middle Norwegian hyrni n, from Old Norse hyrna f, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ f.

• hjørne, hyrna

hyrna n (definite singular hyrna, indefinite and definite plural hyrno)

1. corner ((pre-1938) alternative form of hyrne n)

hyrna

1. definite plural of hyrne n

hyrna f (definite singular hyrna, indefinite plural hyrner or hyrnor, definite plural hyrnene or hyrnone)

1. horned animal ((pre-2012) alternative form of hyrne f)

hyrna

1. definite singular of hyrne

• “hyrna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ, feminine diminutive of *hurną whence Old Norse horn. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

hyrna f

1. point of an axe-head
2. a corner

• horn
• hyrning

• Icelandic: hyrna f
• Middle Norwegian: hyrni n
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hyrne
• Old Swedish: hyrna
  • Swedish: hörna c or f
• Danish: hjørne n
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hjørne
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hjørne

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