verðr

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *werdu-, related to *werduz (“host”). The original meaning may have been "attendance, heeding."[1]

Noun

verðr m (genitive verðar)

  1. meal
Usage notes

Often used in compounds such as dagverðr or dǫgurðr “day-meal” and náttverðr or nátturðr “supper”, depicting meals at different times of the day, as in the descendant languages.

Synonyms
  • málsverðr
  • matarverðr
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Icelandic: verður
  • Faroese: verður
  • Norwegian: dugurd, dagverd, nattverd
  • Old Swedish: -varþer, -værþer, -orþer, -vordher
  • Old Danish: dagorth, natwarth

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *werþaz.

Alternative forms

Adjective

verðr

  1. (with genitive) worth
    svá þótti honum mikils um vert
    he took it so much to heart
    mikils verðr
    much worth
  2. worthy, deserving
    verðr einhvers
    worthy of
Descendants

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “werdu”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 579-80
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