hrosshvalr
Old Norse
Etymology
From hross (“horse”) + hvalr (“whale”).
Noun
hrosshvalr m
- walrus
Descendants
- Old Norse: rosmhvalr, rosmáll (possibly of another origin)
- Icelandic: rosmhvalur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rossmål
- → Norwegian Bokmål: rossmål
- Danish: rosmer
- Old Norse: *hvalhross
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kvalross (partially from Dutch)
- Swedish: valross
- Danish: hvalros
- Norwegian Bokmål: hvalross
- → English: walrus
- → Dutch: walros (obsolete), walrus
- → Afrikaans: walrus
- → German: Walross
References
- “hrosshvalr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press