bekkr

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛkːr̩/

From Proto-Germanic *bankiz, whence also Old English benc (English bench), Old High German bank (German Bank).

bekkr m (genitive bekkjar or bekks, plural bekkir)

1. (Old West Norse) bench

• bekkþili n

• Icelandic: bekkur
• Faroese: bekkur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bekk

From Proto-Germanic *bakiz, whence also German Bach.

bekkr m (genitive bekkjar or bekks, plural bekkir)

1. brook, creek

• Icelandic: bekkur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bekk
• Norwegian Bokmål: bekk
• Old Danish: bæk
  • Danish: bæk
• Old Swedish: bækker
  • Swedish: bäck
• → Old English: bæc, becc (mostly in placenames)
  • Middle English: bec, becc
    • Scots: bek, bekk
    • English: beck
• → Old Norman: bec (mostly in placenames)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “bekkr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive