humarr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *humara- (“lobster”), of unknown ultimate origin, perhaps a non-Indo-European (probably Mediterranean) substrate borrowing. Possibly cognate with Latin cammarus (“lobster”).

Noun

humarr m (genitive humars, plural humarar)

1. lobster

Declension

  Declension of humarr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	humarr	humarrinn	humrar	humrarnir
accusative	humar	humarinn	humra	humrana
dative	humri	humrinum	humrum	humrunum
genitive	humars	humarsins	humra	humranna

Descendants

• Icelandic: humar
• Faroese: hummari
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hummar, humar
• Swedish: hummer
• Danish: hummer
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hummer
• → Middle Low German: *hummer
  • German Low German: Hummer
  • Dutch Low Saxon: hummer
    • → Dutch: hommer
  • → German: Hummer
  • → French: homard
    • → Bulgarian: омар (omar)
    • → Hungarian: homár
    • → Russian: ома́р (omár)
      • → Armenian: օմար (ōmar)
      • → Kazakh: омар (omar)
    • → Slovak: homár

References

• “humarr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “humara”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 254-55