spázera

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German spazieren, from Italian spaziare, from Latin spatiāri, present active infinitive of Latin spatior (“to go for a walk”).

Verb

spázera

  1. to walk; to stroll

Descendants

  • Old Danish: spāssere
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spasere
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: spasera
  • Old Swedish: spāzera
  • →? Scottish Gaelic: spaideil
  • → Scottish Gaelic: spaidsear

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “spázera”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
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