Old Norse

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Etymology

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Adjective

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styggr

  1. shy

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: styggur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: stygg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stygg
  • Old Swedish: stygger
  • Danish: styg

References

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