Word Origin Summary

-iskr is attested in Old Norse. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *-iskazProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. *-iskosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ablativisk

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• -skur

  Faroese · inherited from

• abolisjonistisk

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• -isk

  Swedish · derived from

• aboriginsk

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• -iskur

  Faroese · inherited from

• abkhasisk

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• abyssinisk

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root