väring

See also: Väring and varing

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish *væringer, from Old Norse væringr, from várr (“pledge, oath”) or værr (“pledge, oath”), which is cognate with Old English wǣr (“fidelity, loyalty”), + Old Norse -ingr (“suffix to form gerund noun”) or Old Norse gangi (“companion”). In the latter case cognate with Old English wærgenga.

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk væring and Faroese væringi.

Noun

väring c

  1. Varangian

Declension

Declension of väring
nominative genitive
singular indefinite väring värings
definite väringen väringens
plural indefinite väringar väringars
definite väringarna väringarnas

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.