geirr

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === ᚴᛅᛁᛦ (kaiʀ) — runic gæiʀʀ — Old East Norse === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós (“throwing spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (“to drive, move, fling”). Cognate with Old English gār, Old Frisian gēr, Old Saxon gēr, Old High German gēr, Low German gere, Dutch geer. === Noun === geirr m spear verse 16 of the Hávamál ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Danish: ger Icelandic: geir ⇒ Icelandic: geiri Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: geir Norwegian Nynorsk: geir Old Swedish: göir, geir, ger, gir Swedish: ger, gir ⇒ Swedish: gere, gir ⇒ Swedish: gering === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “geirr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive