frakkar

See also: Frakkar

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *frankô m (“spear, javelin; Frank”), whence also Old Norse frakka f (“spear”). The link between the name of a weapon and a Germanic people group is also seen with saxar m pl (“Saxons”) being derived from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”).

Noun

frakkar m pl

1. (the) Franks

Declension

  Declension of frakkar, (weak an-stem, plural only)

masculine	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	frakkar	frakkarnir
accusative	frakka	frakkana
dative	frǫkkum	frǫkkunum
genitive	frakka	frakkanna

Derived terms

• frakkakonungr m (“king of the Franks”)
• Frakkland n (“land of the Franks; Francia”)

Related terms

• frakka f (“spear”)

Descendants

In mainland Scandinavian languages, the plural ar-ending of the nominative has been fixed to the word, as if it was a demonymic suffix (e.g. Nynorsk -ar or Bokmål -er). Thus they also exist in the singular form, where as Icelandic Frakkar does not.

• Icelandic: Frakkar m pl (“(the) French, Frenchmen”)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frankar m
• Norwegian Bokmål: franker m
• Old Swedish: franker m pl
  • Swedish: franker c
• Danish: franker c

See also

• saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

References

• “frakkar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press