fiskr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”). Cognate with Old English fisc, Old Frisian fisk, Old Saxon fisk, Old Dutch fisk, Old High German fisk, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈfiskr̩/ === Noun === fiskr m (genitive fisks, plural fiskar) a fish Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 345: Veiþa a hverr maþr fugla oc fisca a landi sino […] Every man is to hunt down birds and fish on his own land […] ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: fiskur Faroese: fiskur Norn: fisk Norwegian Bokmål: fisk Norwegian Nynorsk: fisk Elfdalian: fisk Old Swedish: fisker, ᚠᛁᛋᚴᚽᚱSwedish: fisk Old Danish: fisk Danish: fisk Old Gutnish: *fiskr Gutnish: fisk === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “fiskr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 155 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fiskr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 137; also available at the Internet Archive