reykr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *raukiz, whence also Old Frisian rēk (West Frisian reek), Old Saxon rōk (Low German Röök), Old Dutch rouc (Dutch rook), Old High German rouh (German Rauch) and possibly Old English rēc, which might be a loanword from Old Norse reykr.
Noun
editreykr m
Declension
edit Declension of reykr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Icelandic: reykur m
- Faroese: roykur m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: røyk m
- → Norwegian Bokmål: røyk m
- Jamtish: røyk
- Elfdalian: räk
- Old Swedish: rø̄ker m
- Swedish: rök c or m
- Old Danish: rø̄k m
- Old Gutnish: *roykr
- Gutnish: råik
- → English: reek
References
edit- “reykr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press