Where does “brauðhnífur” come from?
brauðhnífur (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-.
brauðhnífur (Icelandic): bread knife
Ancestry of “brauðhnífur”, step by step