landreki

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse landreki.

Noun

landreki m (genitive singular landreka, nominative plural landrekar)

  1. (poetic, kenning) protector of the land, king

Declension

Declension of landreki (masculine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative landreki landrekinn landrekar landrekarnir
accusative landreka landrekann landreka landrekana
dative landreka landrekanum landrekum landrekunum
genitive landreka landrekans landreka landrekanna

Old Norse

Etymology

From land +‎ *reki, from Proto-Germanic *rekô, from Proto-Germanic *rekaną; compare Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Cognate with the second component of English drake, Dutch draak and German Enterich.

Noun

landreki m

  1. (poetic, kenning) protector of the land, king

Descendants

  • Icelandic: landreki

References


Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “landreki”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “landreki”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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