hár

From Old Norse hár, from Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”).

• IPA^(key): /hɔaːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔaːɹ

hár n (genitive singular hárs, plural hár)

1. hair

• IPA^(key): /hauːr/
• Rhymes: -auːr

Inherited from Old Norse hár, hór, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

hár (comparative hærri, superlative hæstur)

1. high

   Múrinn er hár.

   The wall is high.

2. tall

   Guð minn almáttugur! Þú ert orðinn svo hár!

   My God almighty! You've gotten so tall!

• há-

Inherited from Old Norse hár, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

hár n (genitive singular hárs, nominative plural hár)

2. hair

   Þú hefur fallegt hár.

   You have pretty hair.

• hárgreiðsla
• hárþurrka
• í húð og hár
• skapahár
• skírnarhár

• hæra

Cognate with the Faroese háur, hávur,^[1] Norwegian Bokmål hai and Swedish haj.

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hár m (genitive singular hás, nominative plural hávar)

1. (archaic) a dogfish

   Synonyms: háfiskur, háfur

• há-

Inherited from Old Norse hár (“thole”).

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hár m (genitive singular hás, nominative plural háir)

1. (archaic) oarlock, thole

• hrá

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /hɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /hæːɾˠ/

hár

1. h-prothesized form of ár

From Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”). Cognate with Old English hēah, Old Frisian hāch, Old Saxon hōh, Old High German hōh, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs).

• hór
• *haugʀ — Old East Norse
• hæri

hár (comparative hærri, superlative hæstr)

1. high, tall
   • Vǫluspá, verse 19, lines 1-4, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 4:

     Ask veit ek standa / heitir Yggdrasill
     hár baðmr, ausinn / hvíta auri; […]

     I know an ash stands / named Yggdrasill
     a high tree, washed / with white mud;

From Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”). Compare Old Saxon and Old High German hār, Old English her, hǣr.

hár n

2. hair

• Icelandic: hár
• Faroese: hár
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hår
• Norwegian Bokmål: hår
• Elfdalian: år
• Old Swedish: hār
  • Swedish: hår
• Danish: hår
• Gutnish: har, hår

According to de Vries, from the same origin as the "shark" sense of Etymology 4, perhaps referring to the jagged nature of tholes and sharks.^[1]

hár m (genitive hás, plural háir)

1. thole

   Synonyms: þollr, keipr

• Norwegian Nynorsk: hå

Of uncertain origin. De Vries considers the word to be derived from a earlier form related to Proto-Germanic *hōhô (“plow”),^[1] while others take the word as possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, cut”), and related to Frankish *hauwan. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

hár m

2. spiny dogfish
   • First Grammatical Treatise, 84 22:

     Har vex á kykvendum, en hȧr er fiskr.

     Hair grows on living things, but har is a fish.

The First Grammarian says that this word had a long nasalized vowel, marked with an overdot, and contrasts it with hár (“hair”), which does not.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hár

1. strong feminine nominative singular of hárr
2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of hárr

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hár f

1. indefinite genitive singular of há
2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of há

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hár”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 187; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

1. page/187 Internet Archive]

• hrá