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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hammer.
Pronunciation
Noun
hamr m inan
- (informal) hammer
- Synonym: kladivo
Declension
Declension of hamr (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
hamr
- imperative of hamre
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hamô.
Noun
hamr m
- skin, slough
- hleypa hǫmum ― to cast the slough (of snakes)
- shape, form
- skipta hǫmum ― to change one's shape
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hamr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive