heggr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hagja-, a variant of *hagjō (“hedge”).

Noun

heggr m

  1. bird cherry tree, Prunus padus

Declension

Declension of heggr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative heggr heggrinn heggir heggirnir
accusative hegg hegginn heggi heggina
dative hegg hegginum heggjum heggjunum
genitive heggs heggsins heggja heggjanna

Descendants

  • Icelandic: heggur
  • Faroese: heggur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hegg
  • Swedish: hägg
  • Danish: hæg
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hegg

Further reading

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