feitr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faitaz, whence also, Old Frisian fāt, Old Saxon feit, Middle Low German vēt, Middle High German veiz (Early High German feiß, now replaced by fett).

Adjective

feitr (comparative feitari, superlative feitastr)

fat

Descendants

Danish: fed
Faroese: feitur
Icelandic: feitur

Norwegian Bokmål: fet, feit
Norwegian Nynorsk: feit
Swedish: fet

References

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

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