bakki

From Old Norse bakki, from Proto-Germanic *bankô.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaʰtʃːɪ]

bakki m (genitive singular bakka, plural bakkar)

1. cliff
2. bank

Declension of bakki
m1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bakki	bakkin	bakkar	bakkarnir
accusative	bakka	bakkan	bakkar	bakkarnar
dative	bakka	bakkanum	bakkum	bakkunum
genitive	bakka	bakkans	bakka	bakkanna

Declension of bakki
m3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bakki	bakkin	bakkar	bakkarnir
accusative	bakka	bakkan	bakkar	bakkarnar
dative	bakka	bakkanum	bøkkum	bøkkunum
genitive	bakka	bakkans	bakka	bakkanna

Borrowed from Danish bakke (“hill”), from Old Danish bakkæ, from Old Norse bakki, from Proto-Germanic *bankô.

bakki (plural bakkit)

1. hill

From Old Norse bakki, from Proto-Germanic *bankô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpahcɪ/

  Rhymes: -ahcɪ

bakki m (genitive singular bakka, nominative plural bakkar)

1. bank (edge of river or lake)
2. tray (e.g. a dinner tray or ashtray)
3. the blunt side of a blade (on a knife, sword, etc.)

• matarbakki

• “bakki” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• *banki — Old East Norse

From Proto-Germanic *bankô.

bakki m

1. bank (of a river, lake, chasm, etc.)
2. ridge, bank
3. a mound on which the target is set up
4. bank of clouds above the horizon
5. back of a knife or other cutting instrument, opp. to egg.

• bakkakólfr

Swedish and Danish forms with -kk- from western dialectal influence.

• Icelandic: bakki
• Faroese: bakki
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bakke; (dialectal) bakki, bakka, bakk
• Old Swedish: bakke (banke in the toponym Bankekind)
  • Swedish: backe, bank
• Old Danish: bakkæ
  • Danish: bakke, banke
    • Norwegian Bokmål: bakke, banke
    • → Greenlandic: bakki
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: banke

• “bakki”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Entry "bakki" on page 41 in: Geir T. Zoëga "A Concise Dictionary of Old Islandic", Oxford at the Claredon Press (1910).