[2] hrossagaukr (m.) ‘snipe’: Lit. ‘horses’ cuckoo’, the name given to the common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) because of its neighing cry (see CVC: gaukr).
References
- Bibliography
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.