bikarr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Middle Low German bēker, from Old Saxon *bikari, bikeri, from Proto-West Germanic *bikārī.

Noun

bikarr m (genitive bikars, plural bikrar)

  1. beaker

Declension

Declension of bikarr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bikarr bikarrinn bikrar bikrarnir
accusative bikar bikarinn bikra bikrana
dative bikri bikrinum bikrum bikrunum
genitive bikars bikarsins bikra bikranna

Descendants

  • Icelandic: bikar
  • Faroese: bikar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bikar, bekar; (dialectal) bekare
  • Old Swedish: bikare
  • Danish: bæger
    • Norwegian Bokmål: beger
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: beger
    • → North Frisian: baager
  • → Middle English: biker, beker (partially from Middle Dutch)

Further reading

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