hanzki

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German hanske, hantschô (“glove”), from Old Saxon handskōh, from Proto-West Germanic *handuskōh.

Noun

hanzki m (genitive hanzka, plural hanzkar)

  1. glove

Declension

Declension of hanzki (weak an-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hanzki hanzkinn hanzkar hanzkarnir
accusative hanzka hanzkann hanzka hanzkana
dative hanzka hanzkanum hǫnzkum hǫnzkunum
genitive hanzka hanzkans hanzka hanzkanna

Derived terms

  • róðrarhanzki
  • vápnhanzki

Descendants

  • Danish: handske
  • Faroese: handski
  • Icelandic: hanski
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): hanske
  • Norwegian (Bokmål): hanske
  • Swedish: handske

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hanzki”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 184; also available at the Internet Archive
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