gnist

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse gneisti, from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô (“spark”), from *ga- + *hnaistô (“spark”), perhaps from the ultimate source of German knistern (“to crackle”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡnist/, [ɡ̊nisd̥]

Noun

gnist c (singular definite gnisten, plural indefinite gnister)

  1. spark

Inflection
Declension of gnist
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gnist gnisten gnister gnisterne
genitive gnists gnistens gnisters gnisternes

See also

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gnaistan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 183

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gneisti.

Noun

gnist m (definite singular gnisten, indefinite plural gnister, definite plural gnistene)

  1. a spark

See also
  • gneiste (Nynorsk)

References
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