meiss
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *maisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós (“sheepskin”). Related to Old High German meisa.
Noun
[edit]meiss m
Derived terms
[edit]- heymeiss m (“a basket used to carry hay”)
Descendants
[edit]- Norwegian Bokmål: meis
References
[edit]- “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.