jaðarr

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

jǫðurr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *edaraz (“enclosure”). Cognate with Old English eodor, Old Saxon eder, Old High German etar.

Pronunciation

(12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈjɑðɑrː/

Noun

jaðarr m (genitive jaðars, plural jaðrar)

a rim, edge, selvage
- Stjórn 103, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 307:
  Kroka skaltu gera i iodrum ok endum tialldanna.
  
  You will put the hooks through the rims and ends of the tent.
(figuratively) the highest one, foremost one, lord
- Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, verse 40, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 116:
  ef þik fólks jaðar / finna lystir;
  
  if fain the lord / of the folk wouldst find;

Declension

Declension of *jaðarr* (strong a-stem)
masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jaðarr	jaðarrinn	jaðrar	jaðrarnir
accusative	jaðar	jaðarinn	jaðra	jaðrana
dative	jaðri	jaðrinum	jǫðrum	jǫðrunum
genitive	jaðars	jaðarsins	jaðra	jaðranna

Derived terms

handarjaðarr (“edge of the hand”)
*himinjaðarr, himinjǫðurr (“horizon”)
Jaðarr (“Jæren”)
jaðra (“to border”)
jaðrakan (“godwit”)
jaðraskegg (“whiskers”)
skýjaðarr (“heaven”)
sólarjaðarr (“edge of the hand”)

Descendants

Icelandic: jaðar m
Faroese: jaðar m, jaðari m
Norwegian Nynorsk: jadar m, jar (jâr) m, jare m, Jæren m
Norwegian Bokmål: jare m
Old Swedish: iæþur, iadher
- Swedish: jäder c (dialectal)
Old Danish: jæder
- Danish: jæder

Further reading

Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “jaðarr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 320
Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “jaðarr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 231; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

page/231 Internet Archive]

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