nautr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ganautaz. Cognate with Old English ġenēat.

Noun

nautr m (genitive nauts, plural nautar)

1. a mate, fellow
2. a donor, giver
3. a gift

Declension

Declension of nautr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	nautr	nautrinn	nautar	nautarnir
accusative	naut	nautinn	nauta	nautana
dative	nauti	nautinum	nautum	nautunum
genitive	nauts	nautsins	nauta	nautanna

Derived terms

• fǫrunautr (“travelling companion”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: nautur
• Old Swedish: nø̄ter
• Old Gutnish: nautr

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “nautr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 447
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “nautr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 309; also available at the Internet Archive
• “nautr” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen