yndi

From Old Norse yndi, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɪntɪ

yndi n (genitive singular yndis, no plural)

1. delight, joy, pleasure

• gleði
• lukka
• unun

• ynði

From Proto-Germanic *wunjō f. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”).

yndi n (genitive yndis)

1. delight, happiness

• yndifall n (“bereavement”)
• yndiliga (“charmingly”)
• yndiligr (“pleasurable”)
• yndisbót f (“increase of bliss”)
• yndisstaðr m (“place of bliss”) (of Eden)

• “yndi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press