Where does “borðhnífur” come from?
borðhnífur (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic hnífur, from Icelandic knífur, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic knībaz, from Proto-Germanic knīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ-.
borðhnífur (Icelandic): table knife
Ancestry of “borðhnífur”, step by step