• e-r(abbreviation, see usage notes below)
• einhvur(dated, literary or eye dialect)
• einhvör,einhvor(archaic, obsolete)

FromOld Norseeinnhverr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈein.xʷɛːr/
• IPA^(key): /ˈein̥kvɛːr/
• IPA^(key): /ˈeihkvɛːr/ (colloquial)

einhver (feminineeinhver,neuter(used with a noun)eitthvertor(used alone)eitthvað)

1. (indefinite)someone/something,some
   • Isaiah 40 (Icelandic,English)

     Heyr,einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."

     Hark,someone's voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

   Þekkir þúeinhvern sem notar Linux?

   Do you knowsomeone who uses Linux?

   Ég kanneitthvað í japönsku.

   I knowa little Japanese.

• The neuter singular formeitthvert is usedattributively (hliðstætt), i.e. with anoun while the neuter singular formeitthvað is usedsubstantively (sérstætt):

  Heyrðirðueitthvað? ―Did you hearsomething?

  Icelandic Web of Science:Ereitthvert sannleikskorn í grísku goðsögunum? (“Is theresome grain of truth to the Greek myths?”)

• This word has a peculiar style of abbreviation, which not used with any other word:

abbreviation ofeinhver

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	e-r	e-r	e-ð / e-t
accusative	e-n	e-a	e-ð
dative	e-m	e-i	e-u
genitive	e-s	not used	e-s

The above abbreviation is the standard and is used in both formal and informal writing. It ubiquitous in dictionaries. It is however rarely used by younger speakers (born after ca. 1985). Instead younger speakers often either do not abbreviate this word or they use the non-standardeh ore-h (abbreviated fromeinhver), witheh being very widespread in online messaging, although many consider it extremely informal or simply invalid.

• There are alsoproscribedcolloquial forms where the forms of the prefix switch between forms, especially in the neuter singular:einhvert,einhvað,eitthver,eitthverju, etc. instead ofstandardeitthvert,eitthvað,einhver,einhverju.

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), “einhver”, inÍslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies,→ISBN(Available atMálið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2026), “einhver”, inBeygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019),Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “einhver” in theDictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) andISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

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