hanzki

Old Norse

Etymology

From Middle Low German hantske (“gauntlet, glove”) (also spelled hantze, hantsche, hantscho), from Old Saxon handsko (“gauntlet, glove”), from hand (“hand”) and sko (“shoe”). Compare also Dutch handschoen (“glove”), German Handschuh.

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).