naddr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

(as a name) Naddr

Etymology

Variety of dial. Nor. and Swed. snadd "spike," and related to Swed. dial. snattar m. pl. "woman's breasts, nipples," Dutch snater (“beak,”) Luxembourgish Schnatt (“cut,”) German Schnate (“wound, border.”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

naddr m

stud, nail
as a name of a little person

Descendants

Icelandic: naddur, Naddur (meanings as above)
Norwegian Bokmål: nadd

References

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