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Old Norse
Etymology
Either inherited from Proto-Northwest Germanic, where the word would have been *kaisaraz, or loaned from an early dialect of Proto-West Germanic. Replaced later by keisari from Middle Low German.
Noun
kjárr m
- emperor[1]
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136:
"Atlakviða 7.9-10 reads hjalm ok skjǫld hvítastan kominn ór hǫll Kjárs 'helm and whitest shield come from the emperor's court'; again disyllabic *Keiars must be read, since the alliterating stress of the halfline is on hǫll, which must therefore be followed by two syllables, and in this case a translation 'emperor' is strongly suggested by the context."