myki
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Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *mewg- (“slick, slimy”). Cognates include Middle English mok and muk (English muck).
Pronunciation
Noun
myki f
Derived terms
Descendants
- Danish: møg
- → Swedish: mög
- Icelandic: myki, mykja
- Norwegian Bokmål: møkk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: myk
- → Middle English: muk, mok
References
- “myki”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press