drykkr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, whence also Old English drync and Old High German trunch.

Noun

drykkr m

a drink, the act of drinking
a beverage
draught

Declension

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

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drykkr	drykkrinn	drykkir	drykkirnir
accusative	drykk	drykkinn	drykki	drykkina
dative	drykk	drykkinum	drykkjum	drykkjunum
genitive	drykkjar	drykkjarins	drykkja	drykkjanna

Related terms

drekka (“to drink”)
drykkja f (“drink(ing)”)

Descendants

Icelandic: drykkur
Faroese: drykkur
Norwegian Nynorsk: drykk; (dialectal) drykk’e
Elfdalian: drykk
Old Swedish: drykker
- Swedish: dryck f
Danish: drik
- Norwegian Bokmål: drikk

References

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

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