hross

From Old Norse hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈr̥ɔsː/
• Rhymes: -ɔsː

hross n (genitive singular hross, nominative plural hross)

1. a horse

• hestur

• hrossafluga (“cranefly, daddy longlegs”)
• hrossakjöt (“horsemeat”)

• hryssa

• hors

From Proto-Germanic *hrussą (perhaps from a form *hrussa- ‘runner, racer’), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with Old Saxon hros (Dutch ros), Old High German hros, ros (German Ross), Old English hors (English horse); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Latin currō (“run, race”).

hross n (genitive hross, plural hross)

1. horse

• hrosshvalr

• Icelandic: hross, hors
• Faroese: ross, hors
• Norn: russ
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: røss-
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hors (“mare”)
• Old Swedish: hors
  • Swedish: russ, hors (dialectal)
• Danish: hors (dialectal)
• Gutnish: russ

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