mergr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.

Noun

mergr m (genitive mergjar, plural mergir)

marrow

Declension

Declension of mergr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mergr	mergrinn	mergir	mergirnir
accusative	merg	merginn	mergi	mergina
dative	merg	merginum	mergjum	mergjunum
genitive	mergjar	mergjarins	mergja	mergjanna

Descendants

Icelandic: mergur
Faroese: mergur
Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: marg
- Norwegian Nynorsk: merg
Norn: mergi
Danish: marv
Old Swedish: mærgher
- Swedish: märg

References

“mergr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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