heimr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, house, village”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), *(t)ḱoimos (“settlement, dwelling”).

Cognate with Old English hām, Old Frisian hām, hēm, Old Saxon hēm, Old Dutch hēm, Old High German heim, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims). See also Finnish heimo.

Pronunciation
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈhɛ̃ĩmr̩/

Noun

heimr m (genitive heims, plural heimar)

  1. realm, region within walking distance to a þing parliament, land
  2. world
    • Vǫluspá, verse 2, line 5:
      níu man ek heima
      I remember nine worlds
    1. (in particular) this world, the world of humans
      liggja milli heims ok Heljar ― to lie between this world and Hel (i.e. between life and death)
      koma í heiminn ― to come into this world (i.e. be born)
      • Old Norwegian Homily Book, in 1864, C. R. Unger, Gammel Norsk Homiliebog. Christiania, page 72, line 30:
        En þat er vitanda, at þriar ero tiðer hæims. Æin fyrir log. en onnur undir logum. en þriðia undir miskun.
        But it is known that there are three times in the world. One before the law, another under the law, the third under mercy.
  3. a village, ham (especially in placenames)
  4. a home, abode

Declension
  Declension of heimr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative heimr heimrinn heimar heimarnir
accusative heim heiminn heima heimana
dative heimi heiminum heimum heimunum
genitive heims heimsins heima heimanna

Derived terms
  • eiga ekki heimangengt (“to be bound to stay at home”)
  • goðheimr (“home of the gods”)
  • gullheimr (“golden world”)
  • heim (“homewards”)
  • heima (“at home”)
  • heima (“to have a home”)
  • heimaból (“homestead”)
  • heimafólk (“household”)
  • heimahestr (“stallion”)
  • heimaland (“home estate”)
  • heimalíð (“household”)
  • heiman (“from home”)
  • heimanferð (“journey from home”)
  • heimanfylgja (“bride's dowry”)
  • heimanfǫr (“journey from home”)
  • heimaprestr (“parson”)
  • heimaríkr (“tyrannical at home”)
  • heimasæta (“unmarried (of women)”)
  • heimboð (“invitation”)
  • heimbǫllr (“the globe”)
  • Heimdallr (“Heimdall”)
  • heimdragi (“laggard”)
  • heimferð (“return home”)
  • heimfriðr (“home security”)
  • heimfúss, heimfýsi (“longing for home”)
  • heimfǫr (“return home”)
  • heimhamr (“one's own skin”)
  • heimila (“to give a title or a right”)
  • heimild (“title, right”)
  • heimili (“house, homestead”)
  • heimleiðis (“homewards”)
  • heimligr (“worldly”)
  • heimolleikr (“intimace”)
  • heimolliga (“privately”)
  • heimolligr (“intimate, private”)
  • heimreið (“ride home, inroad”)
  • heimsbygð (“the peopled world”)
  • heimska (“folly, nonsense”)
  • heimskr (“foolish, dumb”)
  • heimsslit (“the end of the world”)
  • heimsslit (“the end of the world”)
  • heimssól (“sun”)
  • heimstǫð (“homestead”)
  • heimsvist (“living”)
  • heimsókn (“visit, inroad”)
  • heimsœkja (“to visit”)
  • heimván (“prospect of salvation”)
  • þingheimr (“assembly”)

Descendants
  • Icelandic: heimur m, heim n
  • Faroese: heimur m, heim n
  • Norn: hem
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: heim m
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: heim m
  • Elfdalian: iem
  • Old Swedish: hēmber m, hēm n
  • Old Danish: hēm, hiem
    • Danish: hjem n
      • Norwegian Bokmål: hjem n
  • Old Gutnish: haimr

References
  • “heimr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • heimr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • heimr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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