vǫllr

See also: vollur, völlur, vøllur, and Völlur

Old Norse

From Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). Cognate with Old English weald, wald, Old Frisian wald, Old Saxon wald, Old High German wald. According to Kloekhorst, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wólnus (“meadow, pasture”)^[1] and cognate with Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 (wellu-š, “pasture, meadow”).

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vǫllr m (genitive vallar, dative velli, plural vellir)

Declension of vǫllr (strong u-stem)

Icelandic: völlur
Faroese: vøllur
Norn: vollj
Norwegian: voll
Old Danish: wold, wall
- Danish: vold, val
Old Swedish: valder
- Swedish: vall
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^ Alwin Kloekhorst (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon, Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers