# himinn
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse himinn, from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cloud cover, sky”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɪːmɪnː/

### Noun

himinn m (genitive singular himins, nominative plural himnar)
* sky, the heavens
    Synonyms: (obsolete) andlangur, élhöll
    Við lágum undir berum himni.We lay under the open sky.
* (in the plural) heaven, paradise
    Synonym: himnaríki

#### Declension
### See also

* í sjöunda himni

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* hifinn

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cloud cover, sky”). Cognate with Old English heofon, Old Saxon hevan, Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱemen-, *ḱemer- (“stone, cloud, sky”).

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈhĩmĩnː/

### Noun

himinn m (genitive himins, plural himnar)
* the heavens, sky
** Jóns saga 33, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 245:
    […] var svá skirt veðr ok hreint, at hvergi sá ský á himni […]
    […] the weather was so clear and bright that there were no clouds in the sky […]
* (Christianity, especially in the plural) heaven, paradise
** Þorláks saga 6, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 95:
    […] dýrki þér föður yðarn, þann er á himnum er.
    […] worshipped thy Father, who is in heaven.

#### Derived terms

* brúnahiminn (“forehead”)
* himinbaugr (“'ring' of heaven”)
* himinblámi (“blue sky”)
* himinblár (“sky-blue”)
* himinblær (“whiff of air”)
* himinbogi (“vault of heaven”)
* himinborinn (“heaven-born”)
* himinbrjótr (“ox”)
* himinbúi (“angel”)
* himinfastr (“fixed in heaven (of stars)”)
* himingeimr (“the void”)
* himingeisli (“heavenly beam”)
* himinhringr (“'ring' of heaven”)
* himinhvolf (“vault of heaven”)
* himinjǫðurr (“rim of heaven”)
* himinknǫttr (“heavenly globe”)
* himinkraptar (“pillars of heaven”)
* himinljómi (“heanly light”)
* himinlopt (“vault of heaven”)
* himinraufar (“windows of heaven”)
* himinroði (“redness of the sky”)
* himinríki (“kingdom of heaven”)
* himinrǫðull (“the sun in heaven”)
* himinskaut (“quarter of heaven”)
* himinskin (“heavenly shining”)
* himinstjóri (“God”)
* himinstjǫrnur (“the sun”)
* himinstýrir (“God”)
* himinsól (“the sun in heaven”)
* himintarga (“the sun”)
* himintjald (“canopy”)
* himintungl (“heavenly body”)
* himinvangr (“field of heaven”)
* himnabrauð (“manna”)
* himnadróttinn (“king of heaven”)
* himnafagnaðr (“heavenly joy”)
* himnamjǫl (“manna”)
* himnaríki (“kingdom of heaven”)
* himnavald (“heavenly power”)
* himnavist (“abode in heaven”)
* himneskr (“heavenly”)
* sængrhiminn (“bed canopy”)
* undir berum himni (“in the open air”)
* upphiminn (“ether; heavens above”)
* álhiminn (“ice”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: himinn, hifinn
* Faroese: himin
* Old Swedish: himin
* Old Danish: himæn
* Old Gutnish: himin

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “himinn”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 262
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “himinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 198; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
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