héri

See also: heri, Heri, and herí

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse *héri, from Proto-Germanic *hezô, a variant of Proto-Germanic *hasô. Kroonen (2011) states that the Icelandic é in this word arose from the breaking of a short e into ja, the result of which underwent an r-umlaut to je, eventually merging with é /jɛː/ in Icelandic. [1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈçɛːrɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛːrɪ

Noun

héri m (genitive singular héra, nominative plural hérar)

  1. a hare

Declension
declension of héri
m-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative héri hérinn hérar hérarnir
accusative héra hérann héra hérana
dative héra héranum hérum hérunum
genitive héra hérans héra héranna

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2011), “The *e ~ *a type”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pages 200-201
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