sollr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swulaz (“swill”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to wash, wash down, gulp, swallow”).

Noun

sollr m

1. (collective) swill
2. (collective) a drunken company, rout

Declension

  Declension of sollr (strong a-stem, singular only)

masculine	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	sollr	sollrinn
accusative	soll	sollinn
dative	solli	sollinum
genitive	solls	sollsins

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: soll
• Norwegian Bokmål: soll

References

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