vǫllr

vǫllr

See also: vollur, völlur, vøllur, and Völlur

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). Cognate with Old English weald, wald, Old Frisian wald, Old Saxon wald, Old High German wald. According to Kloekhorst, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wólnus (“meadow, pasture”)[1] and cognate with Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 (wellu-š, “pasture, meadow”).

Pronunciation

• (9th century West Norse) IPA^(key): /wɒlːɹ̝/
• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒlːr̩/
• (Textbook Old Norse) IPA^(key): /ˈˈvɔlːr̩/

Noun

vǫllr m (genitive vallar, dative velli, plural vellir)

1. field, flat ground, meadow

Declension

  Declension of vǫllr (strong u-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vǫllr	vǫllrinn	vellir	vellirnir
accusative	vǫll	vǫllinn	vǫllu	vǫlluna
dative	velli	vellinum	vǫllum	vǫllunum
genitive	vallar	vallarins	valla	vallanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: völlur
• Faroese: vøllur
• Norn: vollj
• Norwegian Nynorsk: voll; (dialectal) vøll, vodd’e
• Westrobothnian: vǫll, vall
• Old Swedish: valder
  • Swedish: vall
• Old Danish: wold, wall
  • Danish: vold, val
    • Norwegian Bokmål: voll

References

1. Alwin Kloekhorst (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon, Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers