bukkr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• bokkr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“buck”).

Noun

bukkr m

1. buck (male deer)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Icelandic: bukkur, bokkur
• Faroese: bukkur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bukk; (dialectal) bukk’e
• Old Swedish: bukker, bokker
  • Swedish: bock
  • → Finnish: pukki
• Old Danish: buk
  • Danish: buk
    • Norwegian Bokmål: bukk

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “bukkr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive