ǫnn

See also: onn, önn, õnn, -œnn, and Onn

Old Norse

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *azaniz, whence also German Ernte (“harvest”).

Noun

ǫnn f (genitive annar, plural annir)

1. work, business, trouble
2. (plural only) working season

Declension

Declension of ǫnn (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ǫnn	ǫnnin	annir	annirnar
accusative	ǫnn	ǫnnina	annir	annirnar
dative	ǫnn	ǫnninni	ǫnnum	ǫnnunum
genitive	annar	annarinnar	anna	annanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: önn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: onn
• Norwegian Bokmål: onn
• Old Swedish: an, and
  • Swedish: (archaic or dialectal) and, ann

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “önn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 529; also available at the Internet Archive