lifr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *librō, whence also Old English lifer, Old High German lebara.

Noun

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lifr f

  1. liver

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: lifur
  • Faroese: livur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: liver, lever; (dialectal) livr, livur
  • Elfdalian: lyr
  • Old Swedish: liver
  • Old Danish: liuær

References

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