Where does “nývaknaður” come from?

nývaknaður (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic vaknaður — awake, awakened.

nývaknaður (Icelandic): just woke up, newly wakened

Definitions

  1. just woke up, newly wakened

Ancestry of “nývaknaður”, step by step

nývaknaður traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Icelandic vaknaður

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Icelandicvaknaðurawake, awakened

via Icelandic ný

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Icelandicnýfeminine singular of nýr
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