hersir
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Norse hersir.
Noun[edit]
hersir (plural hersirs)
- A local leader in early mediaeval Norway.
- 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 52:
- There was a powerful hersir in Sognefjord called Bjorn, who lived at Aurland; his son Brynjolf inherited everything from him.
Anagrams[edit]
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from Proto-Germanic *harisjaz (“army’s leader”), from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”).
Noun[edit]
hersir m
Declension[edit]
Declension of hersir (strong ija-stem)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: hersir
- Norwegian Nynorsk: herse
- Swedish: herse, härse
- Danish: herse
- Norwegian Bokmål: herse
- → English: hersir
References[edit]
- “hersir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “herse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
hersir m (plural hersir)
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