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Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Germanic *kefutaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵóp-wl̥, *ǵép-uns, from *ǵep- (“to eat, chew”). See also English jowl, Dutch kabbelen (“to babble”).
Noun
kjaptr m
- jaw
- gaping jaws
Declension
Declension of kjaptr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “kjaptr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 255: “*ĝeP- ‘± eat, masticate’”
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kiefer¹”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN