kvernsteinn

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From kvern (quern) +‎ steinn (stone).

Noun

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kvernsteinn m (genitive kvernsteins)

  1. millstone, quernstone

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvernstein
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kvernstein

References

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