belgr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“bag”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
Noun[edit]
belgr m (genitive belgjar, plural belgir)
- the skin (of a quadruped) taken off whole
- a skin-bag, skin-case The template Template:rfclarify does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.(clarification of this definition is needed) - bellows (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Declension[edit]
Declension of belgr (strong i-stem, s and ar-genitives)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: belgur
- Faroese: bjølgur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: belg; (dialectal) bæg’e, balg
- Old Swedish: bælgher, ᛒᛅᛚᚵᚼᚽᚱ
- Swedish: bälg
- Danish: bælg
- Norwegian Bokmål: belg
- Gutnish: bälg, bölg
- → Scots: belya, beli, bella, belja, belli
References[edit]
- “belgr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press