bakki

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse bakki, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈpaʰtʃːɪ] === Noun === bakki m (genitive singular bakka, plural bakkar) cliff bank ==== Declension ==== == Greenlandic == === Etymology === Borrowed from Danish bakke (“hill”), from Old Danish bakkæ, from Old Norse bakki, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. === Noun === bakki (plural bakkit) hill ==== Declension ==== == Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse bakki, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpahcɪ/ Rhymes: -ahcɪ === Noun === bakki m (genitive singular bakka, nominative plural bakkar) bank (edge of river or lake) tray (e.g. a dinner tray or ashtray) the blunt side of a blade (on a knife, sword, etc.) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== matarbakki === Further reading === “bakki” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages) == Old Norse == === Alternative forms === *banki — Old East Norse === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *bankô. === Noun === bakki m bank (of a river, lake, chasm, etc.) ridge, bank a mound on which the target is set up bank of clouds above the horizon back of a knife or other cutting instrument, opp. to egg ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== bakkakólfr ==== Descendants ==== Swedish and Danish forms with -kk- from western dialectal influence. Icelandic: bakki Faroese: bakki Norwegian Nynorsk: bakke; (dialectal) bakki, bakka, bakk Old Swedish: bakke (banke in the toponym Bankekind) Swedish: backe, bank Old Danish: bakkæ Danish: bakke, banke Norwegian Bokmål: bakke, banke → Greenlandic: bakki → Norwegian Nynorsk: banke === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “bakki”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 41; also available at the Internet Archive