helgr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *hailagijō, *hailagī.
Noun[edit]
helgr f (genitive helgar, plural helgar)
Declension[edit]
Declension of helgr (strong ijō-stem)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: helgi f
- Norwegian Nynorsk: helg f; (dialectal) hæg f, halg f, helj f, halj f
- Norwegian Bokmål: helg m or f
- Swedish: helg c
- Danish: helg c
References[edit]
- “helgr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- de Vries, Jan (1977) Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill