dvergr
Old Norse
FWOTD – 1 December 2013
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dwergaz (“dwarf”). Cognate with Old English dweorg, Old Frisian dwerch, Old Saxon dwerg, Old High German twerg, twerc.
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈdwerɣr̩/
Noun
dvergr m (genitive dvergs, plural dvergar)
- (Norse mythology) a dwarf
- a short support pillar
- Old Icelandic Homily Book, in 1872, T. Wisén, Homiliu-bók: Isländska homilier efter en handskrift från tolfte århundradet. Gleerup, page 100, lines 37-38:
- Þuertre es scorþa staflǽgior oc upphalda dvergom, […]
- Crosstrees that prop the beams and upholding pillars, […]
- Old Icelandic Homily Book, in 1872, T. Wisén, Homiliu-bók: Isländska homilier efter en handskrift från tolfte århundradet. Gleerup, page 100, lines 37-38:
- a brooch, stud, dress pin
Declension
Derived terms
Terms derived from dvergr
- dyrgja (“female dwarf”)
- dvergasmíði (“work of a dwarf”)
- dvergasóleyg (“glacier crowfoot”)
- dverghagr (“skillful”)
- dvergmál, dvergmali (“echo”)
- dvergmála (“to echo”)
Descendants
References
- “dvergr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dvergr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- dvergr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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