humarr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *humaraz (“lobster”).

Noun

humarr m (genitive humars, plural humarar)

lobster

Declension

Declension of *humarr* (strong a-stem)
masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	humarr	humarrinn	humrar	humrarnir
accusative	humar	humarinn	humra	humrana
dative	humri	humrinum	humrum	humrunum
genitive	humars	humarsins	humra	humranna

Descendants

Icelandic: humar
Faroese: hummari
Norwegian Nynorsk: hummar, humar
Swedish: hummer
Danish: hummer
- Norwegian Bokmål: hummer
→⇒ Middle English: hemroll
→ Middle Low German: *hummer
- German Low German: Hummer
- Dutch Low Saxon: hummer
  - → Dutch: hommer
- → German: Hummer
- → French: homard
  - → Bulgarian: омар (omar)
  - → Hungarian: homár
  - → Russian: ома́р (omár)
    - → Armenian: օմար (ōmar)
    - → Kazakh: омар (omar)
    - → Esperanto: omaro
  - → Slovak: homár

Further reading

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “humarr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
Kroonen, Guus (2013) “humara”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 254-55