vreiðr
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- reiðr (Old West Norse)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz, whence also Old English wrāþ ( > English wroth), Old High German reid. In Old West Norse there was a tendency to drop the initial v, yielding the variant reiðr.
Adjective
vreiðr
- angry, wroth
Descendants
- Danish: vred
- Faroese: reiður (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)
- Icelandic: reiður (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)
- Norwegian (nynorsk): vreid, reid (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)
- Swedish: vred