keisari

From Old Norse keisari, from Middle Low German keiser, from Old High German keisar, keisur, originally from the Latin name Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaiːsaɹɪ/
• Rhymes: -aisaɹɪ

keisari m (genitive singular keisara, plural keisarar)

1. emperor, czar

Borrowed from Old Swedish keysar, keysare, from Middle Low German keiser, from Old High German keisar, keisur, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of tsaari.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkei̯sɑri/, [ˈk̟e̞i̯s̠ɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -eisɑri
• Syllabification^(key): kei‧sa‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): kei‧sa‧ri

keisari

1. emperor

• keisarinna

• “keisari”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Old Norse keisari, from Middle Low German keiser, keisar keisur originally from the Latin name Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰeiːsaːrɪ/
• Rhymes: -eiːsaːrɪ

keisari m (genitive singular keisara, nominative plural keisarar)

1. emperor, czar

• deila um keisarans skegg
• gjaldið keisaranum það sem keisarans er
• keisaraskurður
• keisaraviður

Borrowed from Old Saxon *keisar, *keisari, from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar (“emperor”). Doublet of Kjárr.

keisari m

1. emperor

• Icelandic: keisari
• Faroese: keisari
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: keiser

  Norwegian Nynorsk: keisar

• Old Swedish: keysar, keysare
  • Swedish: kejsare
  • → Finnish: keisari
• Danish: kejser
• Gutnish: kaisare

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