andi
Dibabawon Manobo
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse andi, from Proto-Germanic *anadô.
Gothic
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse andi, from Proto-Germanic *anadô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈantɪ/
- Rhymes: -antɪ
Noun
andi m (genitive singular anda, nominative plural andar)
- breath
- ethos
- Þjóðarandi.
- A national ethos.
- Byltingarandi.
- A revolutionary ethos.
- spirit
- Á Sprengisandi (“On Sprengisandur”) by Grímur Thomsen
- Ríðum, ríðum og rekum yfir sandinn,
- rennur sól á bak við Arnarfell,
- hér á reiki er margur óhreinn andinn,
- úr því fer að skyggja á jökulsvell;
- Drottinn leiði drösulinn minn,
- drjúgur verður síðasti áfanginn.
- Ride, ride, ride hard across the sands,
- the sun is settling behind Arnarfell.
- Here many spirits of the dark
- threaten in the gloom over the glacier's ice.
- The Lord leads my horse,
- it is still a long, long way home.
- Á Sprengisandi (“On Sprengisandur”) by Grímur Thomsen
- genie
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- anda (“to breathe”)
Anagrams
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *anadô.
Noun
andi m (genitive anda, plural andar)
- breath
- (grammar) aspiration
- spirit, soul
- 1871, C.R. Unger, Maríu saga, page 483:
- Ok a somu nott sem hann gallt guði sinn anda, sagði hann sialfr benedictiones ifir bræðr, er lasu lectiones.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- spiritual gift or ability
- spirit; spiritual being
Declension
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- Fritzner, Johan (1867) Ordbog over det gamle norske Sprog, sine loco.
- “andi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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