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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day, name of the D-rune”). Cognate with Old English dæġ (Modern English day), Old Frisian dei, di, Old Saxon dag, Old Dutch dag, Old High German tac, tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɡr̩/
Noun
dagr m (genitive dags, dative degi, plural dagar)
- a day
- Sverris saga 162, in 1834, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VIII. Copenhagen, page 398:
- fór þá enn aptr til liðsins, var þá ok komit at dægi;
- but came then back to his people, when the day was nearly come;
- (in the plural) days, times
- Knýtlinga saga 65, in 1828, Þ. Guðmundsson, R. C. Rask, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume XI. Copenhagen, page 286:
- munu þeir bræðr hafa góða daga með Baldvina hertoga,
- the brothers will have happy days with the duke Baldwin,
Declension
Declension of dagr (strong a-stem)
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References
- “dagr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dagr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- dagr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.