hegri

Faroese

Hegri.

Etymology

From Old Norse hegri, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, metathesis of *hraigrô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛkɹɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛkɹɪ

Noun

hegri m (genitive singular hegra, plural hegrar)

1. a heron (long-legged freshwater and coastal birds of the family Ardeidae)

Declension

m1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hegri	hegrin	hegrar	hegrarnir
accusative	hegra	hegran	hegrar	hegrarnar
dative	hegra	hegranum	hegrum	hegrunum
genitive	hegra	hegrans	hegra	hegranna

Derived terms

• hegrafótur
• hegrakynið

Related terms

• trani
• storkur
• spógvi
• mýrisnípa

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hegri, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, metathesis of *hraigrô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɣrɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛɣrɪ

Noun

hegri m (genitive singular hegra, nominative plural hegrar)

1. a heron

Declension

Declension of hegri (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hegri	hegrinn	hegrar	hegrarnir
accusative	hegra	hegrann	hegra	hegrana
dative	hegra	hegranum	hegrum	hegrunum
genitive	hegra	hegrans	hegra	hegranna

Derived terms

Mynd af hegra. (“A picture of a heron.”)

• bláhegri
• fiskhegri
• fiskihegri
• gráhegri
• Hegrabjarg
• hegrafjöður
• hegrakló
• hegranef
• Hegranes
• hegranessýsla
• Hegranesþing
• Hegrastaðir
• hegrategund
• hegraætt
• Hegrinn
• kolahegri
• kúhegri
• minnishegri
• mjallhegri
• nátthegri
• óminnishegri
• sefhegri
• silkihegri
• stjörnuhegri

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haigrô.

Noun

hegri m

1. heron

Declension

Declension of hegri (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hegri	hegrinn	hegrar	hegrarnir
accusative	hegra	hegrann	hegra	hegrana
dative	hegra	hegranum	hegrum	hegrunum
genitive	hegra	hegrans	hegra	hegranna

Descendants

• Icelandic: hegri
• Faroese: hegri
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: heire (obsolete); hegre
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hegre
• Old Swedish: hægher
  • Swedish: häger c
• Danish: hejre c

Further reading

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