feitr
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *faitaz, whence also, Old Frisian fāt, Old Saxon feit, Middle Low German vēt, Middle High German veiz (Early High German feiß, now replaced by fett).
Adjective
[edit]feitr (comparative feitari, superlative feitastr)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: feitur
- Faroese: feitur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: feit
- → Norwegian Bokmål: feit
- Old Swedish: fēter
- Swedish: fet
- Danish: fed
- Norwegian Bokmål: fet
References
[edit]- “feitr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press