hreysi
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Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Old Norse hreysi (“a cairn; a pile of stones”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hreysi n (genitive singular hreysis, nominative plural hreysi)
Declension[edit]
declension of hreysi
Synonyms[edit]
- (shanty): kofi
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
hreysi n
Derived terms[edit]
- hreysikǫttr (“wild cat”)
- hreysivisla (“weasel”)
- skríða í hreysi (“to slink into a den”)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “hreysi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press