haukr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *habukaz, whence also Old English hafoc, heafoc, Old Saxon havuk, Old High German habuch. Probably ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“seize”).

Noun

haukr m

hawk

Declension

Declension of haukr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	haukr	haukrinn	haukar	haukarnir
accusative	hauk	haukinn	hauka	haukana
dative	hauki	haukinum	haukum	haukunum
genitive	hauks	hauksins	hauka	haukanna

Descendants

Danish: høg c
Faroese: heykur m
Finnish: haukka

Icelandic: haukur m
Norwegian: hauk (Bokmål), hauk (Nynorsk)
Elfdalian: ok m
Swedish: hök c

References

haukr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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