vákn
Faroese
/vɔʰkn/
noun
Definitions
- (whaling) whaling lance
- (poetic) weapon
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse vápn derived from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (weapon) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wēbnom
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *wēbnom Proto-Indo-European
- våpen Norwegian Bokmål
- *wēpną Proto-Germanic
- våpen Norwegian Nynorsk
- wǣpn Old English
- vápn Old Norse
- våben Danish
- vopn Icelandic
- wafan Old High German
- wāfan Old High German
- hvalur Faroese
- hvalvákn Faroese
- vápn Faroese
- 𐍅𐌴𐍀𐌽 Gothic
- *wāpn gmw-pro
- wāpan Old Dutch
- wapan Old Saxon
- vapn Old Swedish