# við
## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [viː]
* Rhymes: -iː

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse við.

#### Preposition

við
* (with accusative or with dative) with
* (with accusative) beside, near
* (with accusative) in

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “in”): frá

### Etymology 2

See viður.

#### Noun

við
* indefinite accusative singular of viður

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɪð/, [vɪːð]
* Rhymes: -ɪːð

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vit, the first-person dual personal pronoun; the plural was vér.

#### Pronoun

við
* (personal pronoun) we, nominative plural form of the personal pronoun ég (“I”)
    Við erum vinir. ― We are friends.

##### Declension

Icelandic personal pronouns :
| singular | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter |
| nominative | ég, eg, ek | þú | hann | hún, hon, hón | það, þat |
| accusative | mig, mik | þig, þik | hann | hana | það, þat |
| dative | mér | þér | honum, hánum | henni | því |
| genitive | mín | þín | hans | hennar | þess |
| plural | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter |
| nominative | við | þið, þit | þeir | þær | þau |
| accusative | okkur | ykkur | þá | þær | þau |
| dative | okkur | ykkur | þeim | þeim | þeim |
| genitive | okkar | ykkar | þeirra | þeirra | þeirra |

##### Derived terms

* eins og við gerðum ráð fyrir

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse við.

#### Preposition

við
* beside, near, next to [with accusative]
    Ég stend við vegginn. ― I'm standing next to the wall.
* (idiomatic) with, to [with accusative ‘some someone’]

##### Derived terms

* bjóða við
* blasa við
* daufheyrast við
* eiga við
* falla eins og flís við rass
* fjandskapast við
* halda við
* heima við
* inn við beinið
* kvað við klukkan
* leika við
* leika við hvern sinn fingur
* leitast við
* líka illa við
* líka vel við
* líka við
* ræða við
* sjá í gegnum fingur við
* skella skolleyrum við
* vera ekki við eina fjölina felldur
* við og við

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

við
* indefinite accusative/dative singular of viður

## Old Norse
### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /wið/, [wið]
* (13th century Icelandic) IPA: /wɪð/, [wɪð]
* Rhymes: -ɪð

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *wiþiz, *wiþjǭ (“cord, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyt- (“that which winds or bends, branch, switch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

#### Noun

við f (genitive viðjar, plural viðjar)
* withy, withe; collar
    viðjar af gullicollars of gold

##### Descendants
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *wiþi, a shortened form of Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”), from Proto-Indo-European *wi-tero- (“more apart”), from *wí (“separation”).

#### Alternative forms

* viðr (preposition)

#### Preposition

við
* [with dative]
** against
** (of direction) towards, against
    horfa við e-mto look towards, to face
** (sociative) along with
** (instrumental) with
** among
** (denoting barter, exchange) against, for
** (denoting remedy) against
** (denoting contest) against
* [with accusative]
** Vǫluspá in skamma 13.
    Haf gengr hríðum / við himin sjalfan…
** by, at close to
** (about time) towards, at
    við sólarsetrat sunset
** (about a person) towards, respecting, regarding
** (of cause) by, at
    falla við hǫggto fall by a stroke
** as compared with, set off against
** according to

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: við, viður
* Faroese: við
* Norwegian: ved
* Elfdalian: wið
* Old Swedish: vīþ, viþer
** Swedish: vid, veder-
* Danish: ved
* Old Gutnish: wiþr, wiþ

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

við
* indefinite accusative singular of viðr

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “við”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 487; also available at the Internet Archive