aptann
Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs (“evening”). Cognate with Old English ǣfen, Old Frisian ēvend, Old Saxon āvand, Old Dutch avont, Old High German aband.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aptann m (genitive aptans, plural aptnar)
- an evening
- Óláfs saga helga 131, in 1829, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 308:
- […] þat varð til tíðinda um aptaninn síð, er myrkt var vorðit, […]
- […] it happened in the late evening, when in it was dark, […]
- Óláfs saga helga 131, in 1829, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 308:
Declension
[edit] Declension of aptann (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from aptann
- aptandrykkja (“evening carouse”)
- aptankveld (“evening”)
- aptanlangt (“all the evening”)
- aptanskæra (“twilight”)
- aptanstjarna (“evening star”)
- aptansǫngr (“evensong”)
- aptansǫngsmál (“time of evensong”)
- aptantími (“eventide”)
- aptna (“to become evening”)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: aftann m
- Faroese: aftan m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: aftan m, eftan m; (dialectal) apta f, afta m, efta m
- Old Swedish: afton, aftan, apton, aptan
- Swedish: afton c
- Old Danish: aftæn
References
[edit]- “aptann”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aptann in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- aptann in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.