humarr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *humara- (“lobster”), of unknown ultimate origin, perhaps a non-Indo-European (probably Mediterranean) substrate borrowing. Possibly cognate with Latin cammarus (“lobster”).
Noun
humarr m (genitive humars, plural humarar)
- lobster
Declension
Declension of humarr (strong a-stem)
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | humarr | humarrinn | humrar | humrarnir |
| accusative | humar | humarinn | humra | humrana |
| dative | humri | humrinum | humrum | humrunum |
| genitive | humars | humarsins | humra | humranna |
Descendants
- Icelandic: humar
- Faroese: hummari
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hummar, humar
- Swedish: hummer
- Danish: hummer
- Norwegian Bokmål: hummer
- → Middle Low German: *hummer
- German Low German: Hummer
- Dutch Low Saxon: hummer
- → Dutch: hommer
- → German: Hummer
- → French: homard
- → Bulgarian: омар (omar)
- → Hungarian: homár
- → Russian: ома́р (omár)
- → Slovak: homár
References
- “humarr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “humara”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 254-55