kjaptr
Old Norse
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editEtymology
editProbably 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
editkjaptr m
Declension
edit Declension of kjaptr (strong a-stem)
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editReferences
edit- “kjaptr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ 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’”
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kiefer¹”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN