riddari

From Old Norse riddari, from Middle Low German ridder (“rider, knight”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɹɪtːaɹɪ]

riddari m (genitive singular riddara, plural riddarar)

1. rider, horseman
2. (historical) knight
3. (chess) knight
4. knight (Order of the Dannebrog)

Declension of riddari
m1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	riddari	riddarin	riddarar	riddararnir
accusative	riddara	riddaran	riddarar	riddararnar
dative	riddara	riddaranum	riddarum	riddarunum
genitive	riddara	riddarans	riddara	riddaranna

From Old Norse riddari, from Middle Low German ridder (“rider, knight”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪtːarɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɪtːarɪ

riddari m (genitive singular riddara, nominative plural riddarar)

1. rider, horseman
2. knight
3. (chess) knight

Chess pieces in Icelandic · taflmennirnir (layout · text)
kóngur	drottning	hrókur	biskup	riddari	peð

• “riddari” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Borrowed from Middle Low German ridder (“rider, knight”), displacing earlier Old Norse *riði.

riddari m (genitive riddara, plural riddarar)

1. rider, horseman
2. knight
3. (chess) knight

• Icelandic: riddari
• Faroese: riddari
• Norwegian Nynorsk: riddar
• Norwegian: (dialectal) riddari
• Swedish: riddare
• Danish: ridder
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ridder

• “riddari”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press