Icelandic

Alternative forms

• Rafn

Proper noun

Hrafn m

1. A male given name

Declension

See also

• krummi

Icelandic

Noun

hrafn m ‎(genitive singular hrafns, nominative plural hrafnar)

1. raven

Declension

Synonyms

• (a raven): krummi m

Derived terms

• nátthrafn
• hrafntinna

See also

• kráka
• krummi
• krunka

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᚺᚨᚱᚨᛒᚨᚾᚨᛉ ‎(harabanaz), from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-. Cognate with Old English hræfn (English raven), Old Frisian ravan (West Frisian raven), Old Saxon hravan, ravan (Low German Raav), Old Dutch ravo (Dutch raaf), Old High German raban (German Rabe). Compare also Latin corvus and Ancient Greek κόραξ ‎(kórax).

Alternative forms

• hramn

Noun

hrafn m

1. raven

Synonyms

• blóðsvǫrr (literally blood-bird, a kenning)

Descendants

References

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