haukr
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *habukaz, whence also Old English hafoc, Old Saxon havuk, Old High German habuch. Probably ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“seize”).
Noun
[edit]haukr m
Declension
[edit] Declension of haukr (strong a-stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: haukur
- Faroese: heykur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hauk
- → Norwegian Bokmål: hauk
- Elfdalian: ok
- Old Swedish: hø̄ker
- Swedish: hök
- Old Danish: høk
References
[edit]- “haukr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press