hauss

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hausaz, cognate with Lithuanian kiáušė, Latvian kaûss. See also hús. Compare hiarsi, Old Danish issæ, jessæ, Danish isse, jesse; Norwegian hjasse; Old Swedish hiesse, hiässe, iässe, Swedish hjässa (“crown; the topmost part of the head”). === Noun === hauss m (genitive hauss, plural hausar) skull Ymis hauss ― Ymir’s skull; the world 10th c., Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Hákonarmál, verse 5: ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== haussprengir (“skull-splitter”) ==== Descendants ==== Danish: høs ⇒ Faroese: heysur Icelandic: haus Norwegian: haus Swedish: hös ==== See also ==== skalli === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hauss”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive