humarr
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *humara- (“lobster”), of unknown ultimate origin, perhaps a non-Indo-European (probably Mediterranean) substrate borrowing. Possibly cognate with Latin cammarus (“lobster”).
Noun
[edit]humarr m (genitive humars, plural humarar)
Declension
[edit] Declension of humarr (strong a-stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: humar
- Faroese: hummari
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hummar, humar
- Swedish: hummer
- Danish: hummer
- Norwegian Bokmål: hummer
- → Middle Low German: *hummer
References
[edit]- “humarr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “humara”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 254-55