heggr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *hagja-, a variant of *hagjō (“hedge”).

Noun[edit]

heggr m

  1. bird cherry tree, Prunus padus

Declension[edit]

  Declension of heggr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative heggr heggrinn heggir heggirnir
accusative hegg hegginn heggi heggina
dative hegg hegginum heggjum heggjunum
genitive heggs heggsins heggja heggjanna

Descendants[edit]

  • Danish: hæg
  • Faroese: heggur
  • Icelandic: heggur
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hegg
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hegg
  • Swedish: hägg

References[edit]

  • “heggr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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