misseri

See also: Misseri

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse misseri.

Noun

misseri n (genitive singular misseris, nominative plural misseri)

1. season (of six months)
2. (education) semester

Declension

Declension of misseri (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	misseri	misserið	misseri	misserin
accusative	misseri	misserið	misseri	misserin
dative	misseri	misserinu	misserum	misserunum
genitive	misseris	misserisins	missera	misseranna

Further reading

• “misseri” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• missari

Etymology

Cognate with Old English missere (“half-year”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

misseri n (genitive misseris, plural misseri)

1. half-year, period of six months

Declension

Declension of misseri (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	misseri	misserit	misseri	misserin
accusative	misseri	misserit	misseri	misserin
dative	misseri	misserinu	misserum	misserunum
genitive	misseris	misserisins	missera	misseranna

Coordinate terms

• mál (“season, period of three months”)
• ár (“year, period of twelve months”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: misseri

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “misseri”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
• E.V. Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse (Second Edition), New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 370, →ISBN.
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “misseri”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive