írskr

Old Norse

Etymology

From írar (“Irishmen”) +‎ -skr.

Adjective

írskr

  1. Pertaining to the Irish; Irish

Declension

  • írar m pl (“Irishmen”)
  • írska f (“the Irish language”)

Descendants

  • Faroese: írskur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: irsk
  • Norwegian Bokmål: irsk
  • Old Swedish: irsker, yrsker
  • Danish: irsk

References

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