fiskr – Old Norse noun declension

Old Norse noun forms of fiskr

Noun: fiskr
Gender: m

Nominative

Sg. Indef.fiskr
Sg. Def.fiskrinn
Pl. Indef.fiskar
Pl. Def.fiskarnir

Genitive

Sg. Indef.fisks
Sg. Def.fisksins
Pl. Indef.fiska
Pl. Def.fiskanna

Dative

Sg. Indef.fiski
Sg. Def.fiskinum
Pl. Indef.fiskum
Pl. Def.fiskunum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.fisk
Sg. Def.fiskinn
Pl. Indef.fiska
Pl. Def.fiskana

Sample Sentences

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

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "fiskr"

Icelandic Nouns fiskur, Danish Nouns fisk, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns fisk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns fisk, Swedish Nouns fisk, Gothic Nouns 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃.

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