misseri

See also: Misseri

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse misseri.

Noun

misseri n (genitive singular misseris, nominative plural misseri)

1. season (of six months)
2. (education) semester

Declension

declension of misseri

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	misseri	misserið	misseri	misserin
accusative	misseri	misserið	misseri	misserin
dative	misseri	misserinu	misserum	misserunum
genitive	misseris	misserisins	missera	misseranna

Further reading

• “misseri” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• missari

Etymology

Cognate with Old English missere (“half-year”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

misseri n (genitive misseris, plural misseri)

1. half-year, period of six months

Declension

  Declension of misseri (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	misseri	misserit	misseri	misserin
accusative	misseri	misserit	misseri	misserin
dative	misseri	misserinu	misserum	misserunum
genitive	misseris	misserisins	missera	misseranna

Coordinate terms

• mál (“season, period of three months”)
• ár (“year, period of twelve months”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: misseri

References

• “misseri”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• E.V. Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse (Second Edition), New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 370, →ISBN.
• “misseri” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)