alfr
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Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós.
Noun
[edit]alfr m
Declension
[edit] Declension of alfr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]- dǫkkalfar (“dark elves”)
- ljósalfar (“light elves”)
- svartalfar (“black elves”)
- Gandalfr (name of a dwarf)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: álfur
- Faroese: álvur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: alv, elv; (dialectal) alg
- Norwegian Bokmål: alv, elv
- Old Swedish: ælf, ælva
- Danish: elv (now only poetic); → alf (learned)
- → Arabic: آلْف (ʔālf)
- → English: auf, oaf
- → Scottish Gaelic: ealbhar
- → Belarusian: альв (alʹv)
- → Russian: альв (alʹv)
- → Ukrainian: альв (alʹv)
References
[edit]- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “alfr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN