Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Probably from Proto-Germanic *kefutaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵóp-wl̥, *ǵép-uns, from *ǵep- (to eat, chew).[1][2] See also English jowl, Dutch kabbelen (to babble).

Noun

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kjaptr m

  1. jaw
  2. gaping jaws

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: kjaftur
  • Faroese: kjaftur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjeft
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kjeft
  • Swedish: käft
  • Danish: kæft

References

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  • kjaptr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 255:*ĝeP- ‘± eat, masticate’
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kiefer¹”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN