envig

Swedish

Viking Age envige

Alternative forms

• envige

Etymology

From Early Modern Swedish enwighe, from Old Swedish envighe, from Old Norse einvígi.

Noun

envig n

1. (archaic) a melee duel
   • 1916 translation by N. E. Hammarstedt of c. 98, Tacitus, Germania

     […] söka de på ett eller annat sätt bortsnappa en fånge, och låta sedan denne i envig mäta sig med en bland deras egna landsmän utvald krigare […]

     […] they seek, by one way or the other, to get hold of a prisoner and then set him for a duel against a warrior chosen from their own folk […]

2. trial by combat, judicial duel

Declension

Declension of envig

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	envig	envigs
	definite	enviget	envigets
plural	indefinite	envig	envigs
	definite	envigen	envigens

See also

• duell
• tvekamp
• holmgång

Further reading

• envig in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• envig in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• given, givne, vinge