bikarr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Saxon *bikari, bikeri, from Proto-West Germanic *bikārī.

Noun[edit]

bikarr m (genitive bikars, plural bikrar)

beaker

Declension[edit]

Declension of bikarr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bikarr	bikarrinn	bikrar	bikrarnir
accusative	bikar	bikarinn	bikra	bikrana
dative	bikri	bikrinum	bikrum	bikrunum
genitive	bikars	bikarsins	bikra	bikranna

Descendants[edit]

Icelandic: bikar
Faroese: bikar
Norwegian Nynorsk: bikar, bekar; (dialectal) bekare
Old Swedish: bikare
- Swedish: bägare
- → Finnish: pikari
- → Ingrian: pikkaari
- → Karelian: pikari
- → Votic: pikari
Danish: bæger
- Norwegian Bokmål: beger
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: beger
- → North Frisian: baager
→ Middle English: biker, beker (partially from Middle Dutch)
- English: beaker
- Scots: bikker, bicker

References[edit]

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

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