Noun: helvíti
Gender: n
Declension:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | helvíti |
| Sg. Def. | helvítið |
| Pl. Indef. | helvíti |
| Pl. Def. | helvítin |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | helvítis |
| Sg. Def. | helvítisins |
| Pl. Indef. | helvíta |
| Pl. Def. | helvítanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | helvíti |
| Sg. Def. | helvítinu |
| Pl. Indef. | helvítum |
| Pl. Def. | helvítunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | helvíti |
| Sg. Def. | helvítið |
| Pl. Indef. | helvíti |
| Pl. Def. | helvítin |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like helvíti
tjaldstæði,
snifsi,
smetti,
aðalminni,
skrípi,
skipti,
skeyti,
dulargervi,
gerviefni,
fáveldi,
ökuleyfi,
mjúkfísi,
barefli,
mötuneyti,
fylgsni,
bílastæði,
einglyrni,
jarðepli,
samheiti,
samkvæmi, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Norse helvíti, from a Christian Pan-Germanic construction as Proto-Germanic *haljōwītiją, constructed from Hel (“the Underworld, the goddess of said realm”), hel (“death, the realm of death”) (itself from Proto-Germanic *haljō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”)) + víti (“punishment”). Compare Faroese helviti, Norwegian and Swedish helvete, Danish helvede, also Old English hellewīte.
2. Hel is the equivalent of Hades in Greek mythology. See: Old Norse Nouns '
helvíti', Faroese Nouns '
helviti'.
Verbs referencing "helvíti"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
helvete, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
helvete, Swedish Nouns
helvete.
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