salr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, hall”). Cognate with Old English sele, 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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Noun
salr m (genitive salar, plural salir)
Declension
Declension of salr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
Derived terms
Terms derived from salr
- auðsalr (“treasure hall”)
- bergsalr (“sky”)
- dísarsalr (“temple”)
- drjúpansalr (“clouded sky”)
- dǫkksalr (“sea”)
- foldsalr (“sky”)
- grundarsal (“earth”)
- fjallasalr (“sky”)
- hásalr (“sky”)
- heiðasalr (“sky”)
- heimssalr (“sky”)
- hreggsalr (“sky”)
- hjartasalr (“breast”)
- mánasalr (“heavens”)
Descendants
References
- “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.