feitr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *faitaz, whence also, Old Frisian fāt, Old Saxon feit, Middle Low German vēt, Middle High German veiz (Early High German feiß, now replaced by fett).
Adjective[edit]
feitr (comparative feitari, superlative feitastr)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: feitur
- Faroese: feitur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: feit
- → Norwegian Bokmål: feit
- Old Swedish: fēter
- Swedish: fet
- Danish: fed
- Norwegian Bokmål: fet
References[edit]
- “feitr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press