undorn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *undurniz. Cognate with Old English undern, Old Frisian undern, Old Saxon undorn, Old High German untarn, untorn, the first part of Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (undaurnimats, “breakfast, midday meal”).

Noun

undorn m (genitive undornar, plural undornir)

  1. mid-afternoon, 3 p.m.
    • Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 7-10, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
      […] morgin hétu / ok miðjan dag, / undorn ok aptan, / árum at telja.
      […] morning they named / and midday, / undern and evening, / years to count.
  2. mid-forenoon, 9 a.m.
    • Bjarkö-Ret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 308:
      […] of hafa unninn eidinn fyrr en hringi undurn at kristſkirkiu.
      […] shall have taken the oath ere the bells at the church ring at undern.

Declension
  Declension of undorn (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative undorn undorninn undornir undornirnir
accusative undorn undorninn undorni undornina
dative undorn undorninum undornum undornunum
genitive undornar undornarins undorna undornanna

Descendants
  • Danish: unden c (dialectal)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: undorn m
  • Swedish: undarn c (dialectal)

References
  • undorn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • undorn in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • undorn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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