þekkr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þakjaz. Cognate with Old High German dekkist (superlative). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. === Adjective === þekkr agreeable, pleasing, liked, dear Early 13th century, Háttatal by Snorri Sturluson ==== Declension ==== Originally being a ja-stem, this adjective often (but not always) has a -j- before vowels other than -i, for instance strong. fem. nom./acc. pl. þekkjar in the Icelandic Homily Book. ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þekkur Faroese: tekkur Norwegian Nynorsk: tekke Old Swedish: þækker Swedish: täck, (otäck) Old Danish: thæk Danish: tække === References === === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “þekkr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press