taparøx

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

→ Old English: taper æx (“securis parvula”)

References

“taparøx” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen
Gerhard Köbler (2014) “Altnordisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse dictionary]”, in https://koeblergerhard.de (in German), 4th edition, taparøx
Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[tapar-øx], Oxford: Clarendon Press
“tapar-öx” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)

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