fangvina

Old Norse

Etymology

fang (“wrestling, grappling”) +‎ vina (“female friend”)

Noun

fangvina f (genitive fangvinu, plural fangvina)

1. (wrestling) a female wrestling opponent; one with which one grapples

Declension

Declension of fangvina (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fangvina	fangvinan	fangvinur	fangvinurnar
accusative	fangvinu	fangvinuna	fangvinur	fangvinurnar
dative	fangvinu	fangvinunni	fangvinum	fangvinunum
genitive	fangvinu	fangvinunnar	fangvinna	fangvinnanna

Coordinate terms

• fangvinr m (“male wrestling opponent”)

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “fangvina”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press