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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic.
Noun
sekkr m (genitive sekkjar, plural sekkir)
- sack, big bag (for turnips, flour, mail, etc.)
Declension
Declension of sekkr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
Descendants
References
- “sekkr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press