fiskr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”). Cognate with Old English fisc, Old Frisian fisk, Old Saxon fisk, Old Dutch fisk, Old High German fisk, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Pronunciation
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈfiskr̩/

Noun

fiskr m (genitive fisks, plural fiskar)

  1. a fish
    • Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 345:
      Veiþa a hverr maþr fugla oc fisca a landi sino […]
      Every man is to hunt down birds and fish on his own land […]

Declension
  Declension of fiskr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fiskr fiskrinn fiskar fiskarnir
accusative fisk fiskinn fiska fiskana
dative fiski fiskinum fiskum fiskunum
genitive fisks fisksins fiska fiskanna

Derived terms
Terms derived from fiskr
  • fiska (“to fish”)
  • fiskakaup (“purchase of fish”)
  • fiskari (“fisherman”)
  • fiskastǫd (“fishing place”)
  • fiskastǫng (“fishing spear”)
  • fiskaver (“fishing place”)
  • fiskbein (“fish-bone”)
  • fiskbleikr (“pale as fish”)
  • fiskgengd (“shoal of fish”)
  • fiskkarl (“fisherman”)
  • fiskkufl (“fishing jacket”)
  • fiskligr (“fit for fishing”)
  • fisklœkr (“fish-brook”)
  • fiskmaðr (“fisherman”)
  • fiskinn (“good at fishing”)
  • fiskiróðr (“rowing out for fish”)
  • fiskisaga (“fish-news”)
  • fiskiskáli (“fishermen's hut”)
  • fiskistǫng (“fishing spear”)
  • fiskiveitr (“catching of fish”)
  • fiskiver (“fishing place”)
  • fiskja (“to fish”)
  • fiskreki (“a kind of whale”)

Descendants
  • Icelandic: fiskur
  • Faroese: fiskur
  • Norn: fisk
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fisk
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fisk
  • Elfdalian: fisk
  • Old Swedish: fisker, ᚠᛁᛋᚴᚽᚱ
  • Old Danish: fisk
  • Old Gutnish: *fiskr

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