sekkr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic.

Noun[edit]

sekkr m (genitive sekkjar, plural sekkir)

  1. sack, big bag (for turnips, flour, mail, etc.)

Declension[edit]

  Declension of sekkr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sekkr sekkrinn sekkir sekkirnir
accusative sekk sekkinn sekki sekkina
dative sekk sekkinum sekkjum sekkjunum
genitive sekkjar sekkjarins sekkja sekkjanna

Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: sekkur
  • Faroese: sekkur
  • Norn: sekk
  • Norwegian: sekk
  • Old Swedish: sækker
  • Danish: sæk
  • Gutnish: säkk

References[edit]

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