meiss

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós (“sheepskin”). Related to Old High German meisa.

Noun

meiss m

1. a wooden box, basket

Derived terms

• heymeiss m (“a basket used to carry hay”)

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: meis

References

• “meiss”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• meiss in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.