sekkr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (sack), from Latin saccus (large bag), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, bag of coarse cloth), from Semitic.

Noun

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sekkr m (genitive sekkjar, plural sekkir)

  1. sack, big bag (for turnips, flour, mail, etc.)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: sekkur
  • Faroese: sekkur
  • Norn: sekk
  • Norwegian: sekk
  • Old Swedish: sækker
  • Danish: sæk
  • Gutnish: säkk

References

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