mǫrðr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *marþuz.

Noun

mǫrðr m (genitive marðar, dative merði, plural merðir, accusative plural mǫrðu)

1. marten

Declension

Declension of mǫrðr (strong u-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mǫrðr	mǫrðrinn	merðir	merðirnir
accusative	mǫrð	mǫrðinn	mǫrðu	mǫrðuna
dative	merði	merðinum	mǫrðum	mǫrðunum
genitive	marðar	marðarins	marða	marðanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: mörður
• Faroese: mørður
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mord, mår; (dialectal) mard (mał, mar)
• Old Swedish: mārþer
  • Swedish: mård c
• Danish: mår c
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mår

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “mörðr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 307; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

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