aldr
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *aldrą (whence also Old English ealdor, Old High German altar), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow”).
Noun edit
aldr m (genitive aldrs, plural aldrar)
Declension edit
Declension of aldr (strong a-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: aldur
- Faroese: aldur
- Norwegian Bokmål: alder
- Norwegian Nynorsk: alder
- Old Swedish: alder
- Swedish: ålder
- Danish: alder
References edit
- “aldr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press