fangvinr

Old Norse

Etymology

fang (“wrestling, grappling”) +‎ vinr (“friend”)

Noun

fangvinr m (genitive fangvinar, plural fangvinir)

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

Declension

Declension of fangvinr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fangvinr	fangvinrinn	fangvinir	fangvinirnir
accusative	fangvin	fangvininn	fangvini	fangvinina
dative	fangvin	fangvininum	fangvinum	fangvinunum
genitive	fangvinar	fangvinarins	fangvina	fangvinanna

Coordinate terms

• fangvina f (“female wrestling opponent”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: fangvinur

Further reading

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