hestr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᚺᚨᚷᛖᛋᛏᚢᛗᛦ (hagestumʀ /⁠hągestumʀ⁠/), from Proto-Germanic *hanhistaz, *hangistaz.

Noun

hestr m

1. horse

   Synonym: hross

Declension

Declension of hestr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hestr	hestrinn	hestar	hestarnir
accusative	hest	hestinn	hesta	hestana
dative	hesti	hestinum	hestum	hestunum
genitive	hests	hestsins	hesta	hestanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: hestur
• Faroese: hestur
• Norn: hest
• Middle Norwegian: hester
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hest; (dialectal) hest’e, heist
• Elfdalian: est
• Old Swedish: hæster
  • Swedish: häst
• Old Danish: hæst
  • Danish: hest
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hest
    • → Greenlandic: hiisti, hesti
  • Scanian: hæst
• Gutnish: häst
• → Scots: hest, hesten

Further reading

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