vagl

• vagle

From Old Norse vagl.

vagl m (definite singular vaglen, indefinite plural vagler, definite plural vaglene)
vagl n (definite singular vaglet, indefinite plural vagl or vagler, definite plural vagla or vaglene)

1. a perch or roost (for birds)

• “vagl” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• vagle

From Old Norse vagl.

vagl m (definite singular vaglen, indefinite plural vaglar, definite plural vaglane)
vagl n (definite singular vaglet, indefinite plural vagl, definite plural vagla)

1. a perch or roost (for birds)

• “vagl” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *wag(a)laz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰlos, cognate with Ancient Greek ὄχλος (ókhlos).

vagl m

1. beam (especially as a roost for chickens)

• Icelandic: vagl
• Faroese: vagl
• Norwegian Bokmål: vagl, vagle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vagl, vagle

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