heggr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hagja-, a variant of *hagjō (“hedge”).

Noun

heggr m

1. bird cherry tree, Prunus padus

Declension

  Declension of heggr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	heggr	heggrinn	heggir	heggirnir
accusative	hegg	hegginn	heggi	heggina
dative	hegg	hegginum	heggjum	heggjunum
genitive	heggs	heggsins	heggja	heggjanna

Descendants

• Danish: hæg
• Faroese: heggur
• Icelandic: heggur
• Norwegian Bokmål: hegg
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hegg
• Swedish: hägg

References

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