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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”). Cognate with Old English eall, Old Frisian all, Old Saxon al, Old Dutch al, ol, Old High German al, Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɑlːr̩/
Adjective
allr (not comparable)
- all, entire, whole
- Vǫluspá, verse 1, lines 1-2, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 1:
Hljóðs bið ek allar / helgar kindir, - For silence I ask all /'holy kindreds
- all, quite, entirely
- gone, past, departed
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “allr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 10
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “allr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 10; also available at the Internet Archive