haugr
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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *haugaz. Related to hár (“high”), Danish høj (“high”), Swedish hög (“hill”), North English how, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.
Noun
haugr m (genitive haugs, plural haugar)
Declension
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | haugr | haugrinn | haugar | haugarnir |
| accusative | haug | hauginn | hauga | haugana |
| dative | haugi | hauginum | haugum | haugunum |
| genitive | haugs | haugsins | hauga | hauganna |
Descendants
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “haugr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “haugr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive