hrosshvalr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From hross (“horse”) +‎ hvalr (“whale”). === Noun === hrosshvalr m walrus ==== Descendants ==== Old Norse: rosmhvalr, rosmáll (possibly of another origin) Icelandic: rosmhvalur Norwegian Nynorsk: rossmål → Norwegian Bokmål: rossmål Danish: rosmer Old Norse: *hvalhross Norwegian Nynorsk: kvalross (partially from Dutch) Swedish: valross Danish: hvalros Norwegian Bokmål: hvalross → English: walrus → Dutch: (obsolete) walros, walrus → Afrikaans: walrus → German: Walross → Middle Irish: rosualt → Irish: rosualt → Scottish Gaelic: rosualt, reasual, ruashual, rochaid, rochaidh → Old French: roal, rohal →⇒ Middle English: rewell bon, ruel bon → English: ruel-bone === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hrosshvalr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive