bitr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *bitraz, whence also Old English biter (English bitter), Old Saxon bittar (Low German bitter), Old High German bittar (German bitter).
Adjective
editbitr
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: bitur
- Faroese: bitur
- Old Swedish: biter, bitter, beter
- Swedish: bitter (under Low German influence)
- Danish: biderhvas (compound with hvass)
References
edit- “bitr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press