Icelandic

Proper noun

Sveinn m

1. A male given name

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology

Originally a byname, from Old Norse sveinn ‎(“boy, servant”).

Proper noun

Sveinn m

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• Danish: Svend
• Estonian: Sven
• Faroese: Sveinur
• Finnish: Soini
• German: Sven, Swen
• Icelandic: Sveinn
• Latvian: Svens
• Norwegian: Svein, Sven
• Swedish: Sven

Icelandic

Noun

sveinn m

1. boy, lad

Derived terms

• hreinn sveinn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swaina-, *swainaz ‎(“relative, young man, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *se- ‎(“aside, separated, apart”), whence also Old English swān (modern English swain), Old High German swein.

Noun

sveinn m

1. boy, lad
2. servant, lackey

Descendants

References

• sveinn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press