aldr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *aldrą (whence also Old English ealdor, Old High German altar), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow”).
Noun[edit]
aldr m (genitive aldrs, plural aldrar)
Declension[edit]
Declension of aldr (strong a-stem)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: aldur
- Faroese: aldur
- Norwegian Bokmål: alder
- Norwegian Nynorsk: alder
- Old Swedish: alder
- Swedish: ålder
- Danish: alder
References[edit]
- “aldr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press