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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *argaz, whence also Old English earg, Old High German arg.
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɑrɣr̩/
Adjective
argr
- (derogatory, offensive) unmanly, effeminate, cowardly
- (derogatory, offensive) bad
Declension
Derived terms
- ergi (“the state of being argr”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “argr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “argr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive