hlekkr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hlankiz.

Noun

hlekkr m (genitive hlekks or hlekkjar, plural hlekkir)

1. link
   • Early 13th century, Háttatal by Snorri Sturluson

     Drífr handar hlekkr, / þar's hilmir drekkr; […]

     The link of the hand [ring > gold] snows, / where the prince drinks; […]

2. (plural only) a chain of links

Declension

Declension of hlekkr (strong i-stem, s and ar-genitives)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hlekkr	hlekkrinn	hlekkir	hlekkirnir
accusative	hlekk	hlekkinn	hlekki	hlekkina
dative	hlekk	hlekkinum	hlekkjum	hlekkjunum
genitive	hlekkjar, hlekks	hlekkjarins, hlekksins	hlekkja	hlekkjanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: hlekkur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lenkje f
• Elfdalian: lekk
• Old Swedish: lænker
  • Swedish: länk
    • → Finnish: lenkki
• Danish: lænke
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lenke

Further reading

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