bikarr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Middle Low German bēker, from Old Saxon *bikari, bikeri, from Proto-West Germanic *bikārī.

Noun

bikarr m (genitive bikars, plural bikrar)

1. beaker

Declension

Declension of bikarr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bikarr	bikarrinn	bikrar	bikrarnir
accusative	bikar	bikarinn	bikra	bikrana
dative	bikri	bikrinum	bikrum	bikrunum
genitive	bikars	bikarsins	bikra	bikranna

Descendants

• Icelandic: bikar
• Faroese: bikar
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bikar, bekar; (dialectal) bekare
• Old Swedish: bikare
  • Swedish: bägare
  • → Finnish: pikari
  • → Ingrian: pikkaari
  • → Karelian: pikari
  • → Votic: pikari
• Old Danish: bechæræ
  • Danish: bæger
    • Norwegian Bokmål: beger
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: beger
    • → North Frisian: baager
• → Middle English: biker, beker (partially from Middle Dutch)
  • English: beaker
  • Scots: bikker, bicker

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “bikarr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive