vreiðr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• reiðr (Old West Norse)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz, whence also Old English wrāþ ( > English wroth), Old High German reid. In Old West Norse there was a tendency to drop the initial v, yielding the variant reiðr.

Adjective

vreiðr

1. angry, wroth

Descendants

• Danish: vred
• Faroese: reiður (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)
• Icelandic: reiður (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)

• Norwegian (nynorsk): vreid, reid (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)
• Swedish: vred