skegg

From Old Norse skegg, from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, skip, move, hurry”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛkː/

skegg n (genitive singular skegs, plural skegg)

1. beard

From Old Norse skegg, from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, skip, move, hurry”).

• IPA^(key): /scɛkː/

  Rhymes: -ɛkː

skegg n (genitive singular skeggs, nominative plural skegg)

1. a beard

• deila um keisarans skegg
• hófskegg
• hreðjaskegg

• granstæði
• hár
• horlopi
• hýjungur
• mumpur
• skeggstæði

From Proto-Germanic *skagją. Related to Old English sceacga (English shag). Cognate with skógr (“forest”) and Old English sceaga (English shaw).

skegg n

1. beard

• skeggǫx

• Icelandic: skegg
• Faroese: skegg
• Norwegian: skjegg
• Old Swedish: skæg
  • Swedish: skägg
• Danish: skæg

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