meiss

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós (“sheepskin”). Related to Old High German meisa.

Noun

meiss m

  1. a wooden box, basket

Derived terms
  • heymeiss m (“a basket used to carry hay”)

Descendants
  • Norwegian Bokmål: meis

References
  • “meiss”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • meiss in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
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