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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norse *-ᛟᚺᛏᚨᛉ (*-ohtaʀ)[1] from Proto-Germanic *-uhtaz.
Suffix
-óttr
- suffix used to create adjectives, meaning more or less the same as -igr and -ugr
- frekna (“freckle”) + -óttr → freknóttr (“freckly, freckled, having freckles”)
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References
- ^ Ragnvald Iversen, Norrøn grammatikk, sjette rev. utgave 1961; page 210