hnøggr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hnawwaz. === Adjective === hnøggr (accusative hnøggvan) stingy ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: hnöggur Norwegian: nøgg Swedish: njugg → Middle English: nig, nigard English: niggard Scots: negart, niggard === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hnøggr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 206; also available at the Internet Archive