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