meiss
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *maisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós (“sheepskin”). Related to Old High German meisa.
Noun[edit]
meiss m
Derived terms[edit]
- heymeiss m (“a basket used to carry hay”)
Descendants[edit]
- Norwegian Bokmål: meis
References[edit]
- “meiss”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- meiss in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.