veisa

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *waisǭ, compare Old English wāse (“marsh, mire”), Old High German waso and Dutch waas.

Noun

veisa f

1. pool; pond; cesspool

Declension

  Declension of veisa (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	veisa	veisan	veisur	veisurnar
accusative	veisu	veisuna	veisur	veisurnar
dative	veisu	veisunni	veisum	veisunum
genitive	veisu	veisunnar	veisna	veisnanna

References

• “veisa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press