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