þorskr
Old Norse
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *þurskaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Noun
editþorskr m
Declension
edit Declension of þorskr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
edit- þyrsklingr m (“codling”)
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: þorskur
- Faroese: toskur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: torsk, tosk
- Old Swedish: þorsker
- Old Danish: thorsk
- → Middle Dutch: dorsch
- Dutch: dors
- → Middle Low German: dorsch
- → Scottish Gaelic: trosg
- → Irish: trosc
- → Welsh: torsg
References
edit- þurka in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.