keppr

Old Norse

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from or from the same ultimate source as Latin cippus (“stake, post”).

Noun

keppr m (genitive kepps, plural keppar)

1. cudgel, club

Declension

  Declension of keppr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	keppr	kepprinn	keppar	kepparnir
accusative	kepp	keppinn	keppa	keppana
dative	keppi	keppinum	keppum	keppunum
genitive	kepps	keppsins	keppa	keppanna

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjepp
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjepp
• Old Swedish: käpper
  • Swedish: käpp
• Danish: kæp

References

• “keppr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press