Etymology

atgeir

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Today it means: A kind of spear-like polearm used by the Norse, conventionally translated as halberd, but of uncertain precise nature. Full definition →

Old Norse atgeirr ← Icelandic atgeir
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  1. Icelandic · borrowed fromatgeir
  2. Old Norse · borrowed fromatgeirr
  3. English todayatgeir

From Old Norse atgeirr or Icelandic atgeir.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.