fiskr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”). Cognate with Old English fisc, Old Frisian fisk, Old Saxon fisk, Old Dutch fisk, visc, Old High German fisk, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.

Pronunciation

(12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈfiskr̩/

Noun

fiskr m (genitive fisks, plural fiskar)

a fish
- Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 345:
  Veiþa a hverr maþr fugla oc fisca a landi sino […]
  Every man is to hunt down birds and fish on his own land […]

Declension

Declension of fiskr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fiskr	fiskrinn	fiskar	fiskarnir
accusative	fisk	fiskinn	fiska	fiskana
dative	fiski	fiskinum	fiskum	fiskunum
genitive	fisks	fisksins	fiska	fiskanna

Derived terms

Terms derived from fiskr

fiska (“to fish”)
fiskakaup (“purchase of fish”)
fiskari (“fisherman”)
fiskastǫd (“fishing place”)
fiskastǫng (“fishing spear”)
fiskaver (“fishing place”)
fiskbein (“fish-bone”)
fiskbleikr (“pale as fish”)
fiskgengd (“shoal of fish”)
fiskkarl (“fisherman”)
fiskkufl (“fishing jacket”)
fiskligr (“fit for fishing”)

fisklœkr (“fish-brook”)
fiskmaðr (“fisherman”)
fiskinn (“good at fishing”)
fiskiróðr (“rowing out for fish”)
fiskisaga (“fish-news”)
fiskiskáli (“fishermen's hut”)
fiskistǫng (“fishing spear”)
fiskiveitr (“catching of fish”)
fiskiver (“fishing place”)
fiskja (“to fish”)
fiskreki (“a kind of whale”)

Descendants

Icelandic: fiskur
Faroese: fiskur
Norn: fisk
Norwegian: fisk
Old Swedish: fisker
- Swedish: fisk
Old Danish: fisk
- Danish: fisk
Elfdalian: fisk
Gutnish: fisk
Westrobothnian: fisk

References

fiskr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
fiskr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
fiskr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.