gulr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *gulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.[1]

Adjective[edit]

gulr

  1. yellow

Usage notes[edit]

"Gulr" is extremely rare in classical Old Norse works and never occurs in Eddic poetry.[1]

Descendants[edit]

See also[edit]

Colors in Old Norse · litir (layout · text)
     hvítr      grár, hǫss      svartr
             rauðr; rauðgulr              brúnn, jarpr              gulr
                          grœnn             
                                       blár
             víolat                          

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crawford, Jackson W. (2016 April) “Bleikr, Gulr, and the Categorization of Color in Old Norse”, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 115, number 2, University of Illinois Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–252

Further reading[edit]

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