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Faroese
Noun
gedda f (genitive singular geddu, plural geddur)
- pike (Esox lucius)
Declension
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
gedda f (genitive singular geddu, nominative plural geddur)
- pike (fish of the genus Esox)
Declension
Old Norse
Etymology
Related to Proto-Germanic *gaidō (“point, prickle, prod”) This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
gedda f
- (zoology) pike
Declension
Declension of gedda (weak ōn-stem)
Descendants
References
- “gedda”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press