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Icelandic
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse landreki.
Noun
landreki m (genitive singular landreka, nominative plural landrekar)
- (poetic, kenning) protector of the land, king
Declension
Declension of landreki (masculine)
Old Norse
Etymology
From land + *reki, from Proto-Germanic *rekô, from Proto-Germanic *rekaną; compare Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Cognate with the second component of English drake, Dutch draak and German Enterich.
Noun
landreki m
- (poetic, kenning) protector of the land, king
Descendants
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson (1874) An Icelandic-English Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press