haukr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *habukaz, whence also Old English hafoc, Old Saxon havuk, Old High German habuch. Probably ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“seize”). === Noun === haukr m hawk ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: haukur Faroese: heykur Norwegian Nynorsk: hauk → Norwegian Bokmål: hauk Elfdalian: ok Old Swedish: hø̄ker Swedish: hök Old Danish: høk Danish: høg Norwegian Bokmål: høk (obsolete) === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “haukr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive