eitr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aitrą, whence also Old English ator, Old High German eitar.

Noun

eitr n

poison

Descendants

Icelandic: eitur
Faroese: eitur
Norwegian Nynorsk: eiter
Norwegian Bokmål: edder
Old Swedish: ēter
- Swedish: etter
Old Danish: ētær
- Danish: edder
Westrobothnian: eiter

References

eitr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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