sekkr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic.

Noun

sekkr m (genitive sekkjar, plural sekkir)

  1. sack, big bag (for potatoes, flour, mail, etc.)

Declension

Descendants

References

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