aftan
Faroese
[aftan], [aʰtːan]
noun
Definitions
- evening
- day before a (Christian) holiday
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse aptann (evening) inherited from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs (evening).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*ēbanþs
Gloss
evening
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
夕, 晩
Emoji
🌆
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *epi Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European
- aften Norwegian Bokmål
- *aftanaz Proto-Germanic
- *ēbanþs Proto-Germanic
- aftan Norwegian Nynorsk
- æfen Old English
- ǣfnung Old English
- aptann Old Norse
- aftann Icelandic
- miðaftann Icelandic
- aband Old High German
- āband Old High German
- āvand Old High German
- aftansangur Faroese
- sangur Faroese
- āvont Old Dutch
- avand Old Saxon
- aƀand Old Saxon
- āvand Old Saxon
- aptan Old Swedish
- aftæn Old Danish
- avtan Scanian