feigr

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === fæigʀ — Old East Norse ᚠᛆᛁᚴᛁᚭᚿ (faikiąn) — Rök runestone (strong masculine accusative singular) === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *faigijaz, whence also Old English fæġe (English fey)), Old High German feigi (“cowardly”). === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈfɛiɣr̩/ === Adjective === feigr fey, doomed to die ==== Declension ==== The original paradigm inherited from Proto-Germanic was a ja-stem, but already by classic written Old Norwegian-Icelandic it had shifted to a regular a-stem, thus with accusative feigan. However, on the 9th century Swedish Rök runestone we find the form faikiąn (normalized spelling fęigjan), with the ja-stem declension still intact. ==== Related terms ==== feigð (“feyness”) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: feigur Faroese: feigur Norwegian: feig; (dialectal) feig’u, feig’e, feg Old Swedish: fēgher Swedish: feg Old Danish: fegh Danish: fej, fejg Norwegian Bokmål: feig === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “feigr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive