NODE / 1230attestedOld Norse

fjándi

TRANSLITERATION fjándiPRONUNCIATION approx. /ˈfjɑːndi/

enemy or opponent; devil, demon, evil spirit, pagan god, Satan, or a derogatory hated being or thing

DATE: Old Norse poetic and prose record
SENSE: enemy fiend old norse
FAMILY: Indo-European / North Germanic
CANONICAL KEY: node:66:fjandi:attested:sense:enemy-fiend-old-norse

ONP classifies the lemma as a masculine noun, gives genitive singular -a and plural fjándr, fjándar, and fjándir, and exposes 222 citations. The pronunciation is a broad editorial normalization rather than a recorded uniform realization. Lexicon Poeticum gives 49 poetic records but explicitly warns that the concordance is unreviewed and its dates should be checked.

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Proto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic reconstruction · enemy lexicalized participle

*fi(j)and-

lexicalized enemy formation from the hate verb’s present participle

SOUND: Old Norse fjándi and plural fjándr continue the inherited Germanic nd-agent formation after North Germanic vowel, glide, ending, and inflectional developments.
MEANING: The already lexicalized one-who-hates formation is inherited as an ordinary enemy noun; demonic, pagan-god, and derogatory branches develop inside the attested Old Norse semantic history.
CHRONOLOGY: Proto-Germanic reconstruction into the source-reported tenth-century poetic and later prose record.
SCHOLAR: Richard Cleasby · Guðbrandur Vigfússon · Daniel Ayora Estevan · Guus Kroonen
CONFIDENCE: probable — The Old Norse lemma, paradigm, and cross-Germanic comparison are published. The precise Proto-Germanic phonetics and each semantic innovation remain reconstructed or textually bounded.

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic — *fi(j)ēn- and *fi(j)and-supportsp. 140, *fi(j)and- and Old Norse fjándi

Publishes the reconstructed parent and Old Norse descendant.

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On the syntax of the Agent nouns in Gothic: the case of nd-formationscontextpp. 47–49, pre-branch lexicalization and Old Norse evidence

Places the inherited noun inside the cross-Germanic lexicalized enemy set.

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Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — fjándi, masculine nounsupportsHeadword fjándi sb. m.; 222 citations; senses 1–6

Supplies the attested lemma, masculine grammar, inflection, corpus scale, and semantic branching.

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An Icelandic-English Dictionary — fjándisupportsfjándi entry: comparative header, nd indicates the participle, properly a hater, senses 1–2

Publishes the Germanic comparison, participial interpretation, enemy sense, and post-Christian fiend development.

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Lexicon Poeticum — fjándi, noun masculine, enemy or devilcontextHeadword and 49 poetic citations, including source-reported 960 and 961 records

Independently places the ordinary enemy noun in the poetic record while preserving the project’s dating disclaimer.

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