sigr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *segaz. Compare Old English siġe, sigor, Old Saxon sigi, Old High German sigu, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍃 (sigis).
Noun
editsigr m (genitive sigrs or sigrar, plural sigrar or sigrir)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Icelandic: sigur
- Faroese: sigur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: siger
- Old Swedish: sigher
- Swedish: seger
- Old Danish: sighær
References
edit- “sigr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press