humarr

Old Norse

Etymology

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

humarr m (genitive humars, plural humarar)

lobster

Declension

Declension of humarr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	humarr	humarrinn	humrar	humrarnir
accusative	humar	humarinn	humra	humrana
dative	humri	humrinum	humrum	humrunum
genitive	humars	humarsins	humra	humranna

Descendants

Icelandic: humar
Faroese: hummari
Norwegian Nynorsk: hummar, humar
Swedish: hummer
Danish: hummer
- Norwegian Bokmål: hummer
→ Middle Low German: *hummer
- German Low German: Hummer
- Dutch Low Saxon: hummer
  - → Dutch: hommer
- → German: Hummer
- → French: homard
  - → Bulgarian: омар (omar)
  - → Hungarian: homár
  - → Russian: ома́р (omár)
  - → Slovak: homár

References

“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, page 254-55

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