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laukr

laukr

Old Norse

Noun

laukr m (genitive lauks, plural laukar)

leek, garlic
- Völsunga saga 32, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 205:
  […] sem gull af járni, eða laukr af öðrum grösum, eða hjörtr af öðrum dýrum, […] ‎
  […] as gold from iron, or leek from other herbs or deer from other beasts, […]

Declension

Declension of laukr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	laukr	laukrinn	laukar	laukarnir
accusative	lauk	laukinn	lauka	laukana
dative	lauki	laukinum	laukum	laukunum
genitive	lauks	lauksins	lauka	laukanna

Derived terms

Terms derived from laukr

ættarlaukr ‎(“best man of a family”)
blóðlaukr ‎(“sword”)
graslaukr ‎(“garlic”)

kofnalaukr ‎(“skin of a puffin”)
laukagarðr ‎(“leek-garden”)

laukjafn ‎(“straight, just”)
laukshǫfuð ‎(“leek-head”)

Descendants

Danish: løg n
Faroese: leykur m
Icelandic: laukur m

Norwegian Bokmål: løk n
Norwegian Nynorsk: lauk m
Swedish: lök c

References

laukr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
laukr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
laukr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.