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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse misseri.
Noun
misseri n (genitive singular misseris, nominative plural misseri)
- season (of six months)
- (education) semester
Declension
Declension of misseri (neuter)
Further reading
Old Norse
Etymology
Cognate with Old English missere (“half-year”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
misseri n (genitive misseris, plural misseri)
- half-year, period of six months
Declension
Declension of misseri (strong a-stem)
Coordinate terms
- mál (“season, period of three months”)
- ár (“year, period of twelve months”)
Descendants
References
- “misseri”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- E.V. Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse (Second Edition), New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 370, →ISBN.
- “misseri” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)