Noun: steinn
Gender: m
Declension:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | steinn |
| Sg. Def. | steinninn |
| Pl. Indef. | steinar |
| Pl. Def. | steinarnir |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | steins |
| Sg. Def. | steinsins |
| Pl. Indef. | steina |
| Pl. Def. | steinanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | steini |
| Sg. Def. | steininum |
| Pl. Indef. | steinum |
| Pl. Def. | steinunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | stein |
| Sg. Def. | steininn |
| Pl. Indef. | steina |
| Pl. Def. | steinana |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like steinn
augasteinn,
prófsteinn,
viskusteinn,
geimsteinn,
míkrófónn,
roðasteinn,
þungsteinn,
mistilteinn,
loftsteinn,
þjónn,
flugþjónn,
kalksteinn,
netþjónn,
lögregluþjónn,
spúnn,
yfirtónn,
kafteinn,
gimsteinn,
matarprjónn,
barþjónn, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse steinn (“stone”), from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”). Cognate with English stone, German Stein, Dutch steen, Danish sten, Norwegian Bokmål sten, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Swedish sten, Faroese steinur, West Frisian stien, Low German Steen. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“something hard”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
steinn', English Nouns '
stone', German Nouns '
Stein', Dutch Nouns '
steen', Danish Nouns '
sten', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
sten', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
stein', Swedish Nouns '
sten', Faroese Nouns '
steinur'.
Verbs referencing "steinn"
English Nouns
stone, Old English Nouns
stan.
Translations