viður
Faroese
/ˈviːjʊɹ/
noun
Definitions
- wood, timber
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse viðr (wood, tree, forest, log, tree wood, board, mast, against, big, bushes, far, wide, stump) derived from Proto-Germanic *widuz (wood).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*widuz
Gloss
wood
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Guido Italian
- *widʰu- Proto-Indo-European
- *Wido Proto-Germanic
- *widuz Proto-Germanic
- ved Swedish
- Freyviðr Old Norse
- Ríkviðr Old Norse
- Skáfiðr Old Norse
- Viðbjǫrn Old Norse
- birkiviðr Old Norse
- mjǫtviðr Old Norse
- viðr Old Norse
- Kvido Czech
- viður Icelandic
- Wido Old High German
- lund Faroese
- rekaviður Faroese
- reki Faroese
- viðarlund Faroese
- *widu gmw-pro
- *widu Old Dutch