heggr

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *hagja-, a variant of *hagjō (“hedge”).

Noun edit

heggr m

bird cherry tree, Prunus padus

Declension edit

Declension of heggr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	heggr	heggrinn	heggir	heggirnir
accusative	hegg	hegginn	heggi	heggina
dative	hegg	hegginum	heggjum	heggjunum
genitive	heggs	heggsins	heggja	heggjanna

Descendants edit

Danish: hæg
Faroese: heggur
Icelandic: heggur
Norwegian Bokmål: hegg
Norwegian Nynorsk: hegg
Swedish: hägg

References edit

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

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