spázera

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German spazieren, from Italian spaziare, from Latin spatiāri, present active infinitive of Latin spatior (“to go for a walk”).

Verb

spázera

1. to walk; to stroll

Descendants

• Old Danish: spāssere
  • Danish: spadsere
• Norwegian Bokmål: spasere
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spasera
  • >? Russenorsk: spaserom
• Old Swedish: spāzera
  • Swedish: spatsera
• →? Scottish Gaelic: spaideil
• → Scottish Gaelic: spaidsear

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “spázera”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press