Where does “hnífasmiður” come from?
hnífasmiður (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-.
hnífasmiður (Icelandic): knifemaker, cutler
Ancestry of “hnífasmiður”, step by step