bolr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• bulr

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Cognate of German Bohle (“thick plank”).

Noun

bolr m (genitive bols, plural bolir)

1. trunk (of a tree or the body)

Declension

  Declension of bolr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bolr	bolrinn	bolir	bolirnir
accusative	bol	bolinn	boli	bolina
dative	bol	bolinum	bolum	bolunum
genitive	bols	bolsins	bola	bolanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: bolur
• Faroese: bulur
• Norwegian: bol
• Swedish: bål
• → Middle English: bole
  • English: bole

References

• “bolr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press