FromOld Norsevið.
við
- (with accusative or with dative)with
- (with accusative)beside,near
- (with accusative)in
Seeviður.
við
- indefiniteaccusativesingular ofviður
FromOld Norsevit, the first-person dual personal pronoun; the plural wasvér.
við
- (personal pronoun)we, nominative plural form of the personal pronounég(“I”)
- Við erumvinir. ―We are friends.
Icelandic personal pronounssingular | first person | second person | third person |
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masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | ég,eg,ek† | þú | hann | hún,hon†,hón† | það,þat† |
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accusative | mig,mik† | þig,þik† | hann | hana | það,þat† |
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dative | mér | þér | honum,hánum† | henni | því |
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genitive | mín | þín | hans | hennar | þess |
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plural | first person | second person | third person |
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masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | við | þið,þit† | þeir | þær | þau |
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accusative | okkur | ykkur | þá | þær | þau |
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dative | okkur | ykkur | þeim | þeim | þeim |
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genitive | okkar | ykkar | þeirra | þeirra | þeirra |
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FromOld Norsevið.
við
- beside,near,next to [withaccusative]
- Égstendviðvegginn. ―I'm standingnext to thewall.
- (idiomatic)with,to[withaccusative‘some someone’]
við
- indefiniteaccusative/dativesingular ofviður
- (12th century Icelandic)IPA(key): /wið/,[wið]
- (13th century Icelandic)IPA(key): /wɪð/,[wɪð]
- Rhymes:-ɪð
FromProto-Germanic*wiþiz,*wiþjǭ(“cord, rope”), fromProto-Indo-European*weyt-(“that which winds or bends, branch, switch”), fromProto-Indo-European*wey-(“to turn, wind, bend”).
við f (genitiveviðjar,pluralviðjar)
- withy,withe;collar
viðjar af gulli- collars of gold
FromProto-Germanic*wiþi, a shortened form ofProto-Germanic*wiþrą(“against”), fromProto-Indo-European*wi-tero-(“more apart”), from*wí(“separation”).
við
- [withdative]
- against
- (of direction)towards,against
horfavið e-m- to look towards, to face
- (sociative)along with
- (instrumental)with
- among
- (denoting barter, exchange)against,for
- (denoting remedy)against
- (denoting contest) against
- [withaccusative]
- Vǫluspá in skamma 13.
- Haf gengr hríðum /við himin sjalfan…
- by,atclose to
- (about time)towards,at
- (about a person) towards,respecting,regarding
- (of cause) by, at
fallavið hǫgg- to fall by a stroke
- ascompared with, set off against
- according to
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
við
- indefiniteaccusativesingular ofviðr
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “við”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page487; also available at theInternet Archive