meiss

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós (“sheepskin”). Related to Old High German meisa.

Noun

meiss m

1. a wooden box, basket

Derived terms

• heymeiss m (“a basket used to carry hay”)

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: meis

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “meiss”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 423
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “meiss”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive