visinn

Old Norse

Etymology

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Adjective

visinn

1. withered

Declension

    Strong declension of visinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visinn	visin	visit
accusative	visinn	visna	visit
dative	visnum	visinni	visnu
genitive	visins	visinnar	visins
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnir	visnar	visin
accusative	visna	visnar	visin
dative	visnum	visnum	visnum
genitive	visinna	visinna	visinna

    Weak declension of visinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visni	visna	visna
accusative	visna	visnu	visna
dative	visna	visnu	visna
genitive	visna	visnu	visna
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnu	visnu	visnu
accusative	visnu	visnu	visnu
dative	visnum	visnum	visnum
genitive	visnu	visnu	visnu

    Declension of comparative of visinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnari	visnari	visnara
accusative	visnara	visnari	visnara
dative	visnara	visnari	visnara
genitive	visnara	visnari	visnara
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnari	visnari	visnari
accusative	visnari	visnari	visnari
dative	visnurum	visnurum	visnurum
genitive	visnari	visnari	visnari

    Strong declension of superlative of visinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnastr	visnust	visnast
accusative	visnastan	visnasta	visnast
dative	visnustum	visnastri	visnustu
genitive	visnasts	visnastrar	visnasts
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnastir	visnastar	visnust
accusative	visnasta	visnastar	visnust
dative	visnustum	visnustum	visnustum
genitive	visnastra	visnastra	visnastra

    Weak declension of superlative of visinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnasti	visnasta	visnasta
accusative	visnasta	visnustu	visnasta
dative	visnasta	visnustu	visnasta
genitive	visnasta	visnustu	visnasta
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	visnustu	visnustu	visnustu
accusative	visnustu	visnustu	visnustu
dative	visnustum	visnustum	visnustum
genitive	visnustu	visnustu	visnustu

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: visen, vissen
• Norwegian Bokmål: vissen
• Danish: vissen

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “visinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive