bragarmál
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Compound of bragr (“poetic praise”) + mál (“speech, language”)
Noun edit
bragarmál n
- poetical diction
- (poetry) a contraction of a short unstressed word; for instance varð ek > varð’k ‘I became’, þá es > þá’s ‘at the time when’
Declension edit
Declension of bragarmál (strong a-stem)
| neuter | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | bragarmál | bragarmálit | bragarmǫ́l | bragarmǫ́lin |
| accusative | bragarmál | bragarmálit | bragarmǫ́l | bragarmǫ́lin |
| dative | bragarmáli | bragarmálinu | bragarmǫ́lum | bragarmǫ́lunum |
| genitive | bragarmáls | bragarmálsins | bragarmála | bragarmálanna |