vitni – Old Norse noun declension

Old Norse noun forms of vitni

Noun: vitni
Gender: n

Nominative

Sg. Indef.vitni
Sg. Def.vitnit
Pl. Indef.vitni
Pl. Def.vitnin

Genitive

Sg. Indef.vitnis
Sg. Def.vitnisins
Pl. Indef.vitna
Pl. Def.vitnanna

Dative

Sg. Indef.vitni
Sg. Def.vitninu
Pl. Indef.vitnum
Pl. Def.vitnunum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.vitni
Sg. Def.vitnit
Pl. Indef.vitni
Pl. Def.vitnin

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like vitni

skipti, dómarasæti, samræði, þegngildi, jafndœgri, kvikvendi, ósmynni, fiðri, gerði, gildi, leyfi, milti, minni, mynni, belti, heiti, vengi, vitni, reyfi, misseri, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *witniją (“witness”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd-, root meaning "to see". Therefore the semantic evolution is "one who has seen" > "witness". Related to vita, vit.

Verbs referencing "vitni"

Faroese Nouns vitni, Icelandic Nouns vitni, Swedish Nouns vittne, Old English Nouns witnes, Danish Nouns vidne, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns vitne, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns vitne.

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