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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse hellir.
Pronunciation
Noun
hellir m (genitive singular hellis, nominative plural hellar)
- a cave
Declension
Old Norse
Etymology
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Noun
hellir m (genitive hellis, plural hellar)
- cave, cavern
Declension
Declension of hellir (strong ija-stem)
Descendants
References
- “hellir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press