reykr
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *raukiz, whence also Old Frisian rēk (West Frisian reek), Old Saxon rōk (Low German Röök), Old Dutch rouc (Dutch rook), Old High German rouh (German Rauch) and possibly Old English rēc, which might be a loanword from Old Norse reykr.
Noun edit
reykr m
Declension edit
Declension of reykr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: reykur m
- Faroese: roykur m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: røyk m
- → Norwegian Bokmål: røyk m
- Jamtish: røyk
- Elfdalian: räk
- Old Swedish: rø̄ker m
- Swedish: rök c or m
- Old Danish: rø̄k m
- Old Gutnish: *roykr
- Gutnish: råik
- → English: reek
References edit
- “reykr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press