landreki

== Icelandic == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Norse landreki. === Noun === landreki m (genitive singular landreka, nominative plural landrekar) (poetic, kenning) protector of the land, king ==== Declension ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === From land +‎ *reki, from Proto-Germanic *rekô, from Proto-Germanic *rekaną; compare Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Cognate with the second component of English drake, Dutch draak and German Enterich. === Noun === landreki m (poetic, kenning) protector of the land, king ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: landreki === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “landreki”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “landreki”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive