taparøx
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either borrowed from Old East Slavic топорьць (toporĭcĭ, “small топоръ”) or *tapar (“?axe”) + øx (“axe”), from топоръ (toporŭ), from Proto-Slavic *toporъ.
Noun
[edit]taparøx f
- small axe
Declension
[edit]| feminine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | taparøx | taparøxin | taparøxar, taparaxar | taparøxarnar, taparaxarnar |
| accusative | taparøxi | taparøxina | taparøxar, taparaxar | taparøxarnar, taparaxarnar |
| dative | taparøxi | taparøxinni | taparøxum, taparǫxum | taparøxunum, taparǫxunum |
| genitive | taparøxar, taparaxar | taparøxarinnar, taparaxarinnar | taparøxa, taparaxa | taparøxanna, taparaxanna |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tapar-öx”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
- Gerhard Köbler (2014) “Altnordisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse dictionary]”, in https://koeblergerhard.de (in German), 4th edition, taparøx
- “taparøx” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tapar-øx”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive