hveiti

From Old Norse hveiti, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (“white”).

hveiti f (genitive singular hveiti, uncountable)

hveiti n (genitive singular hveitis, uncountable)

1. wheat (Triticum)

Declension of hveiti (singular only)
f33s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	hveiti	hveitin
accusative	hveiti	hveitina
dative	hveiti	hveitini
genitive	hveiti	hveitinnar

From Old Norse hveiti, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰveiːtɪ/, /ˈxʷeiːtɪ/
• Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

hveiti n (genitive singular hveitis, no plural)

1. wheat (Triticum)
2. wheat flour

Declension of hveiti
n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	hveiti	hveitið
accusative	hveiti	hveitið
dative	hveiti	hveitinu
genitive	hveitis	hveitisins

• hveitikím
• hveitiklíð
• hveitikorn

From Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (“white”).

Compare Old English hwǣte (English wheat), Old Saxon hwēti (German Low German Weite, Weit), Dutch weit, Old High German hwaizi, weizi (German Weizen), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 (ƕaiteis).

hveiti n

1. wheat (Triticum)

• Icelandic: hveiti
• Faroese: hveiti
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kveite; (dialectal) kveiti, gveite, veite
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: kveite (Obselete)
• Old Swedish: hvēte
  • Swedish: vete, vät
• Old Danish: hwetæ
  • Danish: hvede
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hvete

• “hveiti”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press