bekkr

== Old Norse == === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈbɛkːr̩/ === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Germanic *bankiz, whence also Old English benc (English bench), Old High German bank (German Bank). ==== Noun ==== bekkr m (genitive bekkjar or bekks, plural bekkir) (Old West Norse) bench ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== bekkþili n ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: bekkur Faroese: bekkur Norwegian Nynorsk: bekk === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *bakiz, whence also German Bach. ==== Noun ==== bekkr m (genitive bekkjar or bekks, plural bekkir) brook, creek ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: bekkur Faroese: bekkur Norwegian Nynorsk: bekk; (dialectal) bekk’e Old Swedish: bækker Swedish: bäck Old Danish: bæk Danish: bæk Norwegian Bokmål: bekk → Old English: bæc, becc (mostly in placenames) Middle English: bec, becc Scots: bek, bekk English: beck Old French: *bec Norman: -bec, Bec (in placenames) === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “bekkr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive