sǫðull
See also: söðull
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sod-tló-, from *sed- (“to be seated, sit”).
Noun edit
sǫðull m (genitive sǫðuls, plural sǫðlar)
- a saddle
- leggja sǫðul á hest
- to saddle a horse
- (literally, “[to] lay saddle on [a] horse”)
Declension edit
Declension of sǫðull (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
- sǫðla (“to saddle”)
- sǫðlabúr n (“saddle-room”)
- sǫðulbogi m (“saddle-bow”)
- sǫðulgjǫrð f (“saddle-girth”)
- sǫðulhringja f (“saddle-buckle”)
- sǫðulklæði n (“saddle-cloth”)
- sǫðulreim f (“saddle-strap”)
- sǫðulreiði n (“saddle-harness”)
- sǫðultreyja f (“saddle-cloth (?)”)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: söðull
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sal
- Norwegian Bokmål: sal
- Old Swedish: saþul
- Swedish: sadel
- Danish: sadel
- Norwegian Bokmål: sadel
References edit
- söðull in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.