See also: heri, Heri, and herí

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse *héri, from Proto-Germanic *hezô, a variant of Proto-Germanic *hasô. Kroonen (2011) states that the Icelandic é in this word arose from the breaking of a short e into ja, the result of which underwent an r-umlaut to je, eventually merging with é /jɛː/ in Icelandic. [1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

héri m (genitive singular héra, nominative plural hérar)

  1. a hare

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011), “The *e ~ *a type”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pages 200-201