sekkr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic.

Noun

sekkr m (genitive sekkjar, plural sekkir)

1. sack, big bag (for turnips, flour, mail, etc.)

Declension

Declension of sekkr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sekkr	sekkrinn	sekkir	sekkirnir
accusative	sekk	sekkinn	sekki	sekkina
dative	sekk	sekkinum	sekkjum	sekkjunum
genitive	sekkjar	sekkjarins	sekkja	sekkjanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: sekkur
• Faroese: sekkur
• Norn: sekk
• Norwegian: sekk
• Old Swedish: sækker
  • Swedish: säck
    • → Finnish: säkki
    • → Ingrian: säkki
    • → Proto-Samic:
      • Kildin Sami: са̄һк (sāhk)
• Danish: sæk
• Gutnish: säkk

Further reading

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