Sinjor
Old Norse Dictionary - sinjorMeaning of Old Norse word "sinjor" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- sinjor
- and synjor, mod. signor, m. [for. word, Ital. signore; Fr. seigneur, etc.]:—a lord, master; Sighvat, who first uses the word, applies it to king Olave, in one passage rhyming sinnjor with þinna, in another synjor with brynju: it survives in Icel. in signor, a title of a hreppstjóri (signor Jón).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛁᚾᛁᚢᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- etc.
- et cetera.
- for.
- foreign.
- Fr.
- French in etymologies.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- Ital.
- Italian.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fr.
- Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.