bakki

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaʰtʃːɪ]

bakki m (genitive singular bakka, plural bakkar)

1. cliff
2. bank

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

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “bakki”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 41; also available at the Internet Archive