sekkr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic.

Noun

sekkr m (genitive sekkjar, plural sekkir)

sack, big bag (for potatoes, flour, mail, etc.)

Declension

Declension of sekkr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sekkr	sekkrinn	sekkir	sekkirnir
accusative	sekk	sekkinn	sekki	sekkina
dative	sekk	sekkinum	sekkjum	sekkjunum
genitive	sekkjar	sekkjarins	sekkja	sekkjanna

Descendants

Icelandic: sekkur
Faroese: sekkur
Norn: sekk
Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: sekk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sekk
Old Swedish: sækker
- Swedish: säck c
Danish: sæk c
Gutnish: säkk
Westrobothnian: säkk, saittj

References

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

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