steði

See also: stedi

Old Norse

Etymology

From staðr (“stead”) +‎ -i (agentive suffix).

Noun

steði m (genitive steðja)

1. anvil

Declension

  Declension of steði (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	steði	steðinn	steðjar	steðjarnir
accusative	steðja	steðjann	steðja	steðjana
dative	steðja	steðjanum	steðjum	steðjunum
genitive	steðja	steðjans	steðja	steðjanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: steðji
• Faroese: steðji, stiði
• Norwegian: ste
• Old Swedish: stæϸi; stæϸ n
  • Swedish: städ
• Old Danish: stæth
  • Danish: sted, stede (dialectal)
• → Middle English: stith, steyth, stiþ, styth, stythe
  • English: stith (obsolete)
  • ⇒ Middle English: stithy, stedy, stethi, stethie, stethy, steþi, stidie, stidy, stithi, stithie, stithþi, stiþie, studee, stythie, stythy
    • English: stithy
    • Scots: studdy, stiddy

References

• steði in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.