kvikfé

Old Norse

Etymology

From kvikr +‎ fé.

Noun

kvikfé n (genitive kvikfjár)

1. livestock

Declension

Declension of kvikfé (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kvikfé	kvikféit	kvikfé	kvikféin
accusative	kvikfé	kvikféit	kvikfé	kvikféin
dative	kvikfé	kvikfénu	kvikfjám	kvikfjánum
genitive	kvikfjár	kvikfjárins	kvikfjá	kvikfjánna

Irregular -fjár in the genitive singular.

Descendants

• Danish: kvæg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kveg
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kveg
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvikfe

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kvikfé”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 254; also available at the Internet Archive