hrosshvalr

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Old Norse

Etymology

From hross (“horse”) +‎ hvalr (“whale”).

Noun

hrosshvalr m

walrus

Descendants

Old Norse: rosmhvalr, rosmáll (possibly of another origin)
- Icelandic: rosmhvalur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rossmål
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: rossmål
- Danish: rosmer
Old Norse: *hvalhross
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kvalross (partially from Dutch)
- Swedish: valross
- Danish: hvalros
  - Norwegian Bokmål: hvalross
  - → English: walrus
  - → Dutch: (obsolete) walros, walrus
    - → Afrikaans: walrus
    - → German: Walross
→ Middle Irish: rosualt
- → Irish: rosualt
- → Scottish Gaelic: rosualt, reasual, ruashual, rochaid, rochaidh
→ Old French: roal, rohal
- →⇒ Middle English: rewell bon, ruel bon
  - → English: ruel-bone

References

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

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