hallr

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Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Norse ᚺᚨᛚᚨᛉ (halaʀ), ᚺᚨᛚᛁ (hali), from Proto-Germanic *halluz m. In Proto-Germanic originally a u-stem, but reanalyzed as an a-stem by the time of the inscription on Stenstad stone, dated approximately to the 400s.

Noun

hallr m (genitive halls, plural hallar)

  1. slope, hill
  2. rock, stone
Declension
Descendants
  • Icelandic: hallur
  • (Faroese: halli)
  • Norn: hallj
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hall
  • Old Swedish: hal
  • Danish: hald
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hall
  • Scots: hall (Shetlandish)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *halþaz (sloping, inclined)

Adjective

hallr

  1. leaning to one side, lying over, sloping
  2. biassed, partial
Declension
Derived terms
  • hallæri (bad harvest, literally sloping year)
  • hella (to pour out)
Descendants

References

  1. ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2021 June 2 (last accessed), archived from the original on 2 June 2021

Further reading

  • hallr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press