salr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *saliz (house, hall). Cognate with Old English sele and Gothic *𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍃 (*sals), first part of Old Frisian selskip, also Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali and first part of selihūs and selihof.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (human settlement, village, dwelling).

Pronunciation

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  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈsɑlr̩/

Noun

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salr m (genitive salar, plural salir)

  1. longhouse of the Viking Period, typically a one room house, 15-75 meters long, 5-7 meters wide, with two rows of columns along the length inside, supporting a wood or turf roof, and bulging wider and taller around the middle. [1]
  2. room, hall
    • Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
      [] sól skein sunnan / á salar steina, []
      [] sun shone from the south / upon the stones of the hall. []

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: salur
  • Faroese: salur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sal
  • Old Swedish: sal
  • Danish: sal
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sal

References

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  • salr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • salr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • salr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.