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eitr

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aitrą. Cognate with English atter, Old English ātor, Old High German eitar.^[1]

Noun

eitr n^[2]

atter
poison in general

Declension

Declension of eitr (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	eitr	eitrit	eitr	eitrin
accusative	eitr	eitrit	eitr	eitrin
dative	eitri	eitrinu	eitrum	eitrunum
genitive	eitrs	eitrsins	eitra	eitranna

Descendants

Elfdalian: ietter (“venom; pus”)^[1]
Icelandic: eitur
Faroese: eitur
Norwegian Nynorsk: eiter, eitr
- → Norwegian Bokmål: eiter
Old Swedish: ēter
- Swedish: etter
- ⇒ Old Swedish: ēterkoppa
  - Swedish: etterkopp
Old Danish: ētær
- Danish: edder
  - Norwegian Bokmål: edder
- ⇒ Old Danish: etærkop, ederkoppæ
  - Danish: edderkop
    - Norwegian Bokmål: edderkopp
      - → Norwegian Nynorsk: edderkopp

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*aitra-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 14
^ “eitr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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