meiss

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *maisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós (“sheepskin”). Related to Old High German meisa.

Noun

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meiss m

  1. a wooden box, basket

Derived terms

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  • heymeiss m (“a basket used to carry hay”)

Descendants

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  • Norwegian Bokmål: meis

References

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  • “meiss”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • meiss in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
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