eitr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aitrą, whence also Old English ātor, Old High German eitar.[1]
Noun
eitr n[2]
- poison
Declension
Declension of eitr (strong a-stem)
| neuter | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | eitr | eitrit | eitr | eitrin |
| accusative | eitr | eitrit | eitr | eitrin |
| dative | eitri | eitrinu | eitrum | eitrunum |
| genitive | eitrs | eitrsins | eitra | eitranna |
Descendants
- Elfdalian: ietter (“venom; pus”)[1]
- Icelandic: eitur
- Faroese: eitur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eiter
- Norwegian Bokmål: edder
- Old Swedish: ēter
- Swedish: etter
- Old Danish: ētær
- Danish: edder
- Westrobothnian: eiter
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aitra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 14
- “eitr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press