hljóð

From Old Norse hljóð, from Proto-Germanic *hleuþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Faroese ljóð, Norwegian lyd, Danish lyd, Swedish ljud, German Laut, Scots luid, Dutch luid, and obsolete English loude.

• IPA^(key): /l̥jouːð/
• Rhymes: -ouːð

hljóð n (genitive singular hljóðs, nominative plural hljóð)

1. (countable and uncountable) sound
2. a cry
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) silence

• (cry): óp, hróp
• (silence): þögn

• hliod (Codex Regius)
• hlioð (Hauksbók)

From Proto-Germanic *hleuþą (“sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-to-, derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱlew- (“hear”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸 (hliuþ).

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈl̥joːð/

hljóð n (genitive hljóðs, plural hljóð)

1. silence, hearing
   • Vǫluspá, verse 1, lines 1-2, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:

     Hljóðs bið ek allar / helgar kindir,

     For silence I ask / all holy kindreds

2. a sound, cry
   • Saga Hákonar, Guttorms ok Inga 12, in 1835, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IX. Copenhagen, page 30:

     Þorfinnr kom aungu hljóði í lúðrinn,

     Thorfinn couldn't blow a sound from the trumpet,

3. a musical sound, tune, music
   • Guðmundar saga 28, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 454:

     þangat mantu heyra söng fagran ok hljóð mikit ok dýrðlikt,

     thither you will hear songs beautiful and music great and glorious,

• Icelandic: hljóð n
• Faroese: ljóð n
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ljod m or n, (dialectal) ljø, ly
• Old Swedish: liūþ
  • Swedish: ljud c
• Old Danish: liud
  • Danish: lyd c
    • Norwegian Bokmål: lyd m
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: lyd m
• → Scots: luid

• hljóð in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• hljóð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.