humarr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *humara- (lobster), of unknown ultimate origin, perhaps a non-Indo-European (probably Mediterranean) substrate borrowing. Possibly cognate with Latin cammarus (lobster).

Noun[edit]

humarr m (genitive humars, plural humarar)

  1. lobster

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References[edit]

  • humarr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “humara”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 254-55