hreysi
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom the Old Norse hreysi (“a cairn; a pile of stones”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithreysi n (genitive singular hreysis, nominative plural hreysi)
Declension
editdeclension of hreysi
Synonyms
edit- (shanty): kofi
Old Norse
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Noun
edithreysi n
Derived terms
edit- hreysikǫttr (“wild cat”)
- hreysivisla (“weasel”)
- skríða í hreysi (“to slink into a den”)
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “hreysi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press