læknir

From Old Norse læknir (“healer”). Equivalent to lækna +‎ -ir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaihknɪr/

  Rhymes: -aihknɪr

læknir m (genitive singular læknis, nominative plural læknar)

1. medical practitioner, doctor, MD

• augnlæknir
• barnalæknir
• dýralæknir
• skottulæknir

• lækna (“to heal, cure”)

• *lækir — Old East Norse

Altered from earlier *lækir under the influence of the verb lækna, from Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz.

læknir m (genitive læknis, dative lækni, plural læknar)

1. (Old West Norse) healer

• læknishǫnd

• Icelandic: læknir
• Faroese: lækni
• Old Swedish: lǣkir, lǣkiare
  • Swedish: läkare
  • → Finnish: lääkäri, lääke
  • → Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: lækjar
• Old Danish: lægæ, legi
  • Danish: læge
    • → Norwegian:
      • Norwegian Bokmål: lege
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: lege