arinn

See also: ærinn

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse arinn, whence also Danish arne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːrɪnː/

Noun

arinn m (genitive singular arins, nominative plural arnar)

1. fireplace, hearth

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᚨᛉᛁᚾᚨᛉ (aʀinaʀ) (only attested in the accusative singular ᚨᛉᛁᚾᚨ (aʀina)), from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic *azinaz, derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“hearth, ashes”). See also Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌲𐍉 (azgō), Proto-West Germanic *askā (“ash”).

Noun

arinn m

1. a hearth, a fireplace
2. an elevated platform

Declension

  Declension of arinn (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	arinn	arinninn	arnar	arnarnir
accusative	arin	arininn	arna	arnana
dative	arni	arninum	ǫrnum	ǫrnunum
genitive	arins	arinsins	arna	arnanna

Derived terms

• arinkjóll (“house”, literally “hearth-ship”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: arinn
• Faroese: árin, árnur
• Old Danish: arnæ
  • Danish: arne
    • Norwegian Bokmål: arne
• Norwegian Bokmål: åre
• Old Swedish: arin, ærin
  • Swedish: ärne (dialectal)

References

• “arinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “265”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 265