fiskr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”). Cognate with Old English fisc, Old Frisian fisk, Old Saxon fisk, Old Dutch fisk, Old High German fisk, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈfiskr̩/

Noun

fiskr m (genitive fisks, plural fiskar)

1. a fish
   • Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 345:

     Veiþa a hverr maþr fugla oc fisca a landi sino […]

     Every man is to hunt down birds and fish on his own land […]

Declension

Declension of fiskr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fiskr	fiskrinn	fiskar	fiskarnir
accusative	fisk	fiskinn	fiska	fiskana
dative	fiski	fiskinum	fiskum	fiskunum
genitive	fisks	fisksins	fiska	fiskanna

Derived terms

• fiska (“to fish”)
• fiskakaup (“purchase of fish”)
• fiskari (“fisherman”)
• fiskastǫd (“fishing place”)
• fiskastǫng (“fishing spear”)
• fiskaver (“fishing place”)
• fiskbein (“fish-bone”)
• fiskbleikr (“pale as fish”)
• fiskgengd (“shoal of fish”)
• fiskinn (“good at fishing”)
• fiskiróðr (“rowing out for fish”)
• fiskisaga (“fish-news”)
• fiskiskáli (“fishermen's hut”)
• fiskistǫng (“fishing spear”)
• fiskiveitr (“catching of fish”)
• fiskiver (“fishing place”)
• fiskja (“to fish”)
• fiskkarl (“fisherman”)
• fiskkufl (“fishing jacket”)
• fiskligr (“fit for fishing”)
• fisklœkr (“fish-brook”)
• fiskmaðr (“fisherman”)
• fiskreki (“a kind of whale”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: fiskur
• Faroese: fiskur
• Norn: fisk
• Norwegian Bokmål: fisk
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fisk
• Elfdalian: fisk
• Old Swedish: fisker, ᚠᛁᛋᚴᚽᚱ
  • Swedish: fisk
• Old Danish: fisk
  • Danish: fisk
• Old Gutnish: *fiskr
  • Gutnish: fisk

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “fiskr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 155
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fiskr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 137; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

1. page/137 Internet Archive]