diskr

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from a West Germanic source, perhaps Old English disc, from Proto-West Germanic *disk.[1][2]

Noun

diskr m

  1. plate

Descendants

  • Icelandic: diskur
  • Faroese: diskur
  • Danish: disk
  • Norwegian Bokmål: disk
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: disk
  • Swedish: disk

References

  1. ^ Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond: Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. (2012). Germany: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag., p. 114
  2. ^ The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. (2002). Germany: W. de Gruyter, p. 330

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “diskr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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