lagaskipan

Old Norse

Etymology

From lǫg (“law”) +‎ skipan (“order, ordering”).

Noun

lagaskipan f (genitive lagaskipanar, plural lagaskipanir)

1. legislation
2. ordering of the law

Declension

  Declension of lagaskipan (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lagaskipan	lagaskipanin	lagaskipanir	lagaskipanirnar
accusative	lagaskipan	lagaskipanina	lagaskipanir	lagaskipanirnar
dative	lagaskipan	lagaskipaninni	lagaskipunum	lagaskipununum
genitive	lagaskipanar	lagaskipanarinnar	lagaskipana	lagaskipananna

Related terms

• lǫgskipan f (“ordinance”)

References

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