hegri

From Old Norse hegri, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, metathesis of *hraigrô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛkɹɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛkɹɪ

hegri m (genitive singular hegra, plural hegrar)

1. a heron (long-legged freshwater and coastal birds of the family Ardeidae)

• hegrafótur
• hegrakynið

• trani
• storkur
• spógvi
• mýrisnípa

From Old Norse hegri, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, metathesis of *hraigrô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɣrɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛɣrɪ

hegri m (genitive singular hegra, nominative plural hegrar)

1. a heron

• bláhegri
• fiskhegri
• fiskihegri
• gráhegri
• Hegrabjarg
• hegrafjöður
• hegrakló
• hegranef
• Hegranes
• hegranessýsla
• Hegranesþing
• Hegrastaðir
• hegrategund
• hegraætt
• Hegrinn
• kolahegri
• kúhegri
• minnishegri
• mjallhegri
• nátthegri
• óminnishegri
• sefhegri
• silkihegri
• stjörnuhegri

From Proto-Germanic *haigrô.

hegri m

1. heron

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