undir
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse undir, from Proto-Germanic *under.
Preposition
[edit]undir
- (motion) under [with accusative]
- (location) under [with dative]
- Antonym: yfir
Derived terms
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *under.
Preposition
[edit]undir
- (with accusative or dative) under, underneath
- Antonym: yfir
Usage notes
[edit]Whether undir takes accusative or dative, depends on the sense.
- With the accusative case, it signifies movement towards something or someone. In other words it has an allative sense.
- With the dative case, it signifies positioning and location somewhere. In other words it has a locative sense.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: undir
- Faroese: undir
- Norn: onjder, onder
- Norwegian Bokmål: under
- Norwegian Nynorsk: under
- Old Swedish: undir
- Swedish: under
- Danish: under
- Gutnish: undar, unda, undur
References
[edit]- “undir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
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- Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic prepositions
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse prepositions