-óttr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse *-ᛟᚺᛏᚨᛉ (*-ohtaʀ)[1] from Proto-Germanic *-uhtaz.

Suffix

-óttr

  1. suffix used to create adjectives, meaning more or less the same as -igr and -ugr
    ‎frekna (“freckle”) + ‎-óttr → ‎freknóttr (“freckly, freckled, having freckles”)

Derived terms
Old Norse terms suffixed with -óttr
  • glófoxóttr
  • grábildóttr
  • hornóttr
  • leiróttr
  • rauðdropóttr
  • svartblesóttr
  • vikóttr

Descendants
  • Icelandic: -óttur
  • Faroese: -utur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: -ete, -et, -ut
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -et, -ete
  • Swedish: -ad, -t
  • Danish: -et

References
  1. Ragnvald Iversen, Norrøn grammatikk, sjette rev. utgave 1961; page 210
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