fullr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fullaz, whence also Old English full (English full), Old Frisian full (West Frisian fol), Old Saxon ful (Low German vull), Dutch vol, Old High German foll (German voll), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós

Adjective

fullr (comparative fullari, superlative fullastr)

1. full

Related terms

• fylla

Descendants

• Danish: fuld
• Faroese: fullur
• Icelandic: fullur
• Norwegian Bokmål: full
• Norwegian Nynorsk: full
• Swedish: full

References

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