taparøx

Old Norse

Etymology

Either borrowed from Old East Slavic топорьць (toporĭcĭ, “small топоръ”) or *tapar (“?axe”) +‎ øx (“axe”), from топоръ (toporŭ), from Proto-Slavic *toporъ.

Noun

taparøx f

1. small axe

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• → Old English: taper æx (“securis parvula”)

References

• “taparøx” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen
• Gerhard Köbler (2014) “Altnordisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse dictionary]”, in https://koeblergerhard.de (in German), 4th edition, taparøx
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[tapar-øx], Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tapar-öx” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)