héri
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)
- a hare
Declension edit
declension of héri
References edit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011), “The *e ~ *a type”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pages 200-201