jafn

From Old Norse jafn, from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz. Compare Faroese javnur, Norwegian Bokmål jevn, Norwegian Nynorsk jamn, Swedish jämn, Danish jævn, English even, Dutch even, and effen, German eben.

• IPA^(key): /japn/

  Rhymes: -apn

jafn (comparative jafnari, superlative jafnastur)

1. even
2. equal
   • Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Icelandic, English)

     Hver maður er borinn frjáls og jafn öðrum að virðingu og réttindum. Menn eru gæddir vitsmunum og samvizku, og ber þeim að breyta bróðurlega hverjum við annan.

     All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

3. (arithmetic, not comparable) even; (leaving no remainder when divided by 2)

• (divisible by 2): sléttur

• jafn að ummáli (“isoperimetric”)
• jafnaðarstefna
• jafngilda
• jafnhallaferill
• jöfnuður
• ummálsjafn (“isoperimetric”)

• jamn

From Proto-Germanic *ebnaz.

jafn (comparative jafnari, superlative jafnastr)

1. even (number)
2. equal, the same

• jafna

• Icelandic: jafn
• Faroese: javnur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jamn
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: jamn
• Old Swedish: iæmpn, iamn, iæmn, iampn
  • Swedish: jämn
• Old Danish: iæmfn, iafn, iæfn, ifn, iofn, iauæn, iæuæn, iæmn
  • Danish: jævn
    • Norwegian Bokmål: jevn
• Elfdalian: iemmen
• Jamtish: jamn
• Gutnish: jamnar, jämbar
• Scanian: jǫvner

• jafn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.