feitr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faitaz, whence also, Old Frisian fāt, Old Saxon feit, Middle Low German vēt, Middle High German veiz (Early High German feiß, now replaced by fett).

Adjective

feitr (comparative feitari, superlative feitastr)

  1. fat

Descendants

  • Icelandic: feitur
  • Faroese: feitur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: feit
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: feit
  • Old Swedish: fēter
  • Danish: fed
    • Norwegian Bokmål: fet

Further reading

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