frakkar
See also: Frakkar
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *frankô m (“spear, javelin; Frank”), whence also Old Norse frakka f (“spear”). The link between the name of a weapon and a germanic people group is also seen with saxar m pl (“Saxons”) being derived from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”).
Noun
frakkar m pl
- (the) Franks
Declension
Declension of frakkar, (weak an-stem, plural only)
Related terms
- frakka f (“spear”)
Derived terms
- frakkakonungr m (“king of the Franks”)
- Frakkland n (“land of the Franks; Francia”)
Descendants
In mainland Scandinavian languages, the plural ar-ending of the nominative has been fixed to the word, as if it was a demonymic suffix (e.g. Nynorsk -ar or Bokmål -er). Thus they also exist in the singular form, where as Icelandic Frakkar does not.
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- Norwegian Nynorsk: frankar m
- Norwegian Bokmål: franker m
- Old Swedish: franker m pl
- Swedish: franker c
- Danish: franker c
See also
- saxar m pl (“Saxons”)
References
- “frakkar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press