bukkr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • bokkr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“buck”).

Noun

bukkr m

  1. buck (male deer)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Icelandic: bukkur, bokkur
  • Faroese: bukkur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bukk; (dialectal) bukk’e
  • Old Swedish: bukker, bokker
  • Danish: buk
    • Norwegian Bokmål: bukk

Further reading

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