hvé

Old Norse

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwē.

Adverb

hvé

  1. how
    ek man hvé sæll ek var
    I remember how happy I was

Descendants

  • Icelandic: hvé, hve

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “hvé”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
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