krappr

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Old Norse

Etymology

According to Kroonen, from Proto-Germanic *krampa- (crooked), an adjective from the verb *krimpaną (to shrink).[1] However, Pokorny posits that it is related to Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (power, strength), similar to kraptr, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (to twist, wind).[2]

Adjective

krappr

  1. strait, narrow
  2. sharp, crafty

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: krappur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: krapp
  • Norwegian Bokmål: krapp

References

  • krappr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “krampa”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 301
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “385-390”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 385-390