hanzki

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German hanske, hantschô (“glove”), from Old Saxon handskōh, from Proto-West Germanic *handuskōh.

Noun

hanzki m (genitive hanzka, plural hanzkar)

1. glove

Declension

  Declension of hanzki (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hanzki	hanzkinn	hanzkar	hanzkarnir
accusative	hanzka	hanzkann	hanzka	hanzkana
dative	hanzka	hanzkanum	hǫnzkum	hǫnzkunum
genitive	hanzka	hanzkans	hanzka	hanzkanna

Derived terms

• róðrarhanzki
• vápnhanzki

Descendants

• Danish: handske
• Faroese: handski
• Icelandic: hanski
• Norwegian (Nynorsk): hanske
• Norwegian (Bokmål): hanske
• Swedish: handske
  • → Finnish: hansikas, hanska

References

• “hanzki”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Entry "hanzki" on page 185 in: Geir T. Zoëga "A Concise Dictionary of Old Islandic", Oxford at the Claredon Press (1910).