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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skaljafiskaz. Cognate with Old English sċielfisċ → English shellfish. Equivalent to skel + fiskr.
Noun
skelfiskr m
- shellfish
Declension
Declension of skelfiskr (strong a-stem)
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “skelfiskr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive