gulr

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *gulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.^[1]

Adjective edit

gulr

yellow

Usage notes edit

"Gulr" is extremely rare in classical Old Norse works and never occurs in Eddic poetry.^[1]

Descendants edit

Icelandic: gulur
Faroese: gulur
Norwegian Nynorsk: gul, (dialectal) gul’u, gul’e
Norwegian Bokmål: gul
Old Swedish: gul, gol
- Swedish: gul, (dialectal) gål
Old Danish: guul
- Danish: gul
→ Middle English: gul, gull, gulle, gule, goole, goule
- ⇒ Scots: golgrav
- Yola: ghou

See also edit

Colors in Old Norse · litir (layout · text)
hvítr	grár, hǫss	svartr
rauðr; rauðgulr	brúnn, jarpr	gulr
	grœnn
		blár
víolat

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Crawford, Jackson W. (2016 April) “Bleikr, Gulr, and the Categorization of Color in Old Norse”, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 115, number 2, University of Illinois Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–252

Further reading edit

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

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