frakkar

See also: Frakkar

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *frankô m (“spear, javelin; Frank”), whence also Old Norse frakka f (“spear”). The link between the name of a weapon and a Germanic people group is also seen with saxar m pl (“Saxons”) being derived from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”).

Noun

frakkar m pl

  1. (the) Franks

Declension
  Declension of frakkar, (weak an-stem, plural only)
masculine plural
indefinite definite
nominative frakkar frakkarnir
accusative frakka frakkana
dative frǫkkum frǫkkunum
genitive frakka frakkanna

Derived terms

Descendants

In mainland Scandinavian languages, the plural ar-ending of the nominative has been fixed to the word, as if it was a demonymic suffix (e.g. Nynorsk -ar or Bokmål -er). Thus they also exist in the singular form, where as Icelandic Frakkar does not.

  • Icelandic: Frakkar m pl (“(the) French, Frenchmen”)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: frankar m
  • Norwegian Bokmål: franker m
  • Old Swedish: franker m pl
  • Danish: franker c

See also
  • saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

References
  • “frakkar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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