Hinn
Old Icelandic Dictionary - hinnMeaning of Old Icelandic word "hinn" in English.
As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):
hinn Old Icelandic word can mean:
- hinn
- I)
- hinn
- (hin, hitt), dem. pron.
- hinn
- 1) the other; á hinn fótinn, on the other leg; pl. the others, the rest (Kimbi bar sár sín engan mun betr en hinir);
- hinn
- 2) emphatically, that; hitt ek hugða, that was what I thought; hitt vil ek vita, that I want to know.
- hinn
- II)
- hinn
- (hin, hit), def. art., before an adjective standing alone or followed by a substantive, the, = inn, enn (eptir hinni eystri kvísl).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛁᚾᚾ
Abbreviations used:
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- def.
- definite.
- f.
- feminine.
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