ǫfund

See also: öfund

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *abundiz.

Noun

ǫfund f (genitive ǫfundar)

1. envy

Declension

Declension of ǫfund (strong ō-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ǫfund	ǫfundin	ǫfundar	ǫfundarnar
accusative	ǫfund	ǫfundina	ǫfundar	ǫfundarnar
dative	ǫfund	ǫfundinni	ǫfundum	ǫfundunum
genitive	ǫfundar	ǫfundarinnar	ǫfunda	ǫfundanna

Derived terms

• ǫfunda (“to envy”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: öfund
• Faroese: øvund
• Norwegian Nynorsk: avund, ovund
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: avund m
• Old Swedish: afund
  • Swedish: avund c, afund (pre-1906 spelling)
• Old Danish: auænd, afund
  • Danish: avind
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avind

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “öfund”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 527; also available at the Internet Archive