feitr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *faitaz, whence also, Old Frisian fāt, Old Saxon feit, Middle Low German vēt, Middle High German veiz (Early High German feiß, now replaced by fett).
Adjective
feitr (comparative feitari, superlative feitastr)
- fat
Descendants
- Danish: fed
- Faroese: feitur
- Icelandic: feitur
- Norwegian Bokmål: fet, feit
- Norwegian Nynorsk: feit
- Swedish: fet
References
- feitr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press