nafn

From Old Norse nafn, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /napn/

  Rhymes: -apn

nafn n (genitive singular nafns, nominative plural nöfn)

1. a name

• naβn — Old East Norse
• namn

From Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Cognate with Old English nama, noma, Old Frisian noma, Old Saxon namo, Old Dutch namo, Old High German namo, Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 (namō).

nafn n (genitive nafns, plural nǫfn)

1. name, title

   konungs nafn

   the title of king

   (literally, “king’s name”)

• nefna (“to name”)

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