eitr

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *aitrą, whence also Old English ātor, Old High German eitar.^[1]

Noun edit

eitr n^[2]

poison
venom, specifically snake venom and the like

Declension edit

Declension of eitr (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	eitr	eitrit	eitr	eitrin
accusative	eitr	eitrit	eitr	eitrin
dative	eitri	eitrinu	eitrum	eitrunum
genitive	eitrs	eitrsins	eitra	eitranna

Descendants edit

Elfdalian: ietter (“venom; pus”)^[1]
Icelandic: eitur
Faroese: eitur
Norwegian Nynorsk: eiter, eitr
- → Norwegian Bokmål: eiter
Old Swedish: ēter
- Swedish: etter
- ⇒ Old Swedish: ēterkoppa
  - Swedish: etterkopp
Old Danish: ētær
- Danish: edder
  - Norwegian Bokmål: edder
- ⇒ Old Danish: etærkop, ederkoppæ
  - Danish: edderkop
    - Norwegian Bokmål: edderkopp
      - → Norwegian Nynorsk: edderkopp

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aitra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 14
^ “eitr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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