skammr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skammaz.

Adjective

skammr (comparative skemmri, superlative skemstr)

  1. short
    fyr skǫmmu
    a short time ago
    hvern létu þeir hǫfði skemmra
    they decapitated each one
    (literally, “they let each one become shorter by a head”)

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: skammur

References

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