hanzki

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German hanske, hantschô (“glove”), from Old Saxon handskōh, from Proto-West Germanic *handuskōh.

Noun

hanzki m (genitive hanzka, plural hanzkar)

1. glove

Declension

Declension of hanzki (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hanzki	hanzkinn	hanzkar	hanzkarnir
accusative	hanzka	hanzkann	hanzka	hanzkana
dative	hanzka	hanzkanum	hǫnzkum	hǫnzkunum
genitive	hanzka	hanzkans	hanzka	hanzkanna

Derived terms

• róðrarhanzki
• vápnhanzki

Descendants

• Danish: handske
• Faroese: handski
• Icelandic: hanski
• Norwegian (Nynorsk): hanske
• Norwegian (Bokmål): hanske
• Swedish: handske
  • → Finnish: hansikas, hanska

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hanzki”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 184; also available at the Internet Archive