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Old Norse
Etymology
Either borrowed from Old East Slavic топорьць (toporĭcĭ, “small топоръ”) or *tapar (“?axe”) + øx (“axe”), from топоръ (toporŭ), from Proto-Slavic *toporъ.
Noun
taparøx f
- small axe
Declension
Declension of taparøx (strong ijō-stem)
feminine
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singular
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plural
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indefinite
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definite
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indefinite
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definite
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nominative
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taparøx
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taparøxin
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taparøxar, taparaxar
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taparøxarnar, taparaxarnar
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accusative
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taparøxi
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taparøxina
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taparøxar, taparaxar
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taparøxarnar, taparaxarnar
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dative
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taparøxi
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taparøxinni
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taparøxum, taparǫxum
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taparøxunum, taparǫxunum
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genitive
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taparøxar, taparaxar
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taparøxarinnar, taparaxarinnar
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taparøxa, taparaxa
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taparøxanna, taparaxanna
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Derived terms
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tapar-öx”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
- Gerhard Köbler (2014) “Altnordisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse dictionary]”, in https://koeblergerhard.de (in German), 4th edition, taparøx
- “taparøx” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tapar-øx”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive