sinjor

and synjor, mod. signor, m. [for. word, Ital. signore; Fr. seigneur, etc.]:—a lord, master; Sighvat, who first uses the word, applies it to king Olave, in one passage rhyming sinnjor with þinna, in another synjor with brynju: it survives in Icel. in signor, a title of a hreppstjóri (signor Jón).