froskr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fruskaz, whence also Old English frosc, Old High German frosc. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“jump, hop”).

Noun

froskr m

frog

Descendants

Icelandic: froskur
Faroese: froskur
Norwegian: frosk
→ Middle English: frosk
- English: frosk

References

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

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