hrosshvalr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From hross (“horse”) + hvalr (“whale”).
Noun[edit]
hrosshvalr m
Descendants[edit]
- Old Norse: rosmhvalr, rosmáll (possibly of another origin)
- Icelandic: rosmhvalur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rossmål
- → Norwegian Bokmål: rossmål
- Danish: rosmer
- Old Norse: *hvalhross
References[edit]
- “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[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press