drengr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *drangijaz (“staff; stake; man; servant”). Cognate with Old English dreng (“warrior; soldier”).

Noun

drengr m (genitive drengjar, plural drengir)

1. lad, youth, young man, in the sense of a warrior
2. one who is courageous or daring; a badass

Declension

  Declension of drengr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drengr	drengrinn	drengir	drengirnir
accusative	dreng	drenginn	drengi	drengina
dative	dreng	drenginum	drengjum	drengjunum
genitive	drengs	drengsins	drengja	drengjanna

Descendants

• Danish: dreng
  • North Frisian: dräng, dring
• Faroese: drongur
• Icelandic: drengur

• Norwegian: dreng
• Old Swedish: drænger
  • Swedish: dräng
    • → Northern Sami: reaŋga
    • → Finnish: renki

References

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