salr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, hall”). Cognate with Old English sele and Gothic *𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍃 (*sals), first part of Old Frisian selskip, also Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali and first part of selihūs and selihof.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈsɑlr̩/
Noun
salr m (genitive salar, plural salir)
- room, hall
- Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
- […] sól skein sunnan / á salar steina, […]
- […] sun shone from the south / upon the stones of the hall. […]
- Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
Declension
Declension of salr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | salr | salrinn | salir | salirnir |
| accusative | sal | salinn | sali | salina |
| dative | sal | salinum | sǫlum | sǫlunum |
| genitive | salar | salarins | sala | salanna |
Derived terms
Terms derived from salr
- auðsalr (“treasure hall”)
- bergsalr (“sky”)
- dísarsalr (“temple”)
- drjúpansalr (“clouded sky”)
- dǫkksalr (“sea”)
- foldsalr (“sky”)
- grundarsal (“earth”)
- fjallasalr (“sky”)
- hásalr (“sky”)
- heiðasalr (“sky”)
- heimssalr (“sky”)
- hreggsalr (“sky”)
- hjartasalr (“breast”)
- mánasalr (“heavens”)
- mergjarsalr (“bone”)
- regnsalr (“sky”)
- rǫðlasalr (“heavens”)
- salakynni (“homestead”)
- saldrótt (“domestics”)
- salgarðr (“wall”)
- salgaukr, salgofnir (“the cock”)
- salhús (“room”)
- salkona (“housemaid”)
- salkynni (“homestead”)
- salþjóð (“domestics”)
- sólarsalr (“heavens”)
- sandasalr (“sea”)
Descendants
- Icelandic: salur m
- Faroese: salur m
- Norwegian Bokmål: sal m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sal m
- Old Swedish: sal m
- Swedish: sal c
- Danish: sal c
References
- “salr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- salr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- salr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.