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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, hall”). Cognate with Old English sele and Gothic *𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍃 (*sals), first part of Old Frisian selskip, also Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali and first part of selihūs and selihof.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈsɑlr̩/
Noun
salr m (genitive salar, plural salir)
- longhouse of the Viking Period, typically a one room house, 15-75 meters long, 5-7 meters wide, with two rows of columns along the length inside, supporting a wood or turf roof, and bulging wider and taller around the middle.
- room, hall
- Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
[…] sól skein sunnan / á salar steina, […]- sun shone from the south / upon the stones of the hall.
Declension
Declension of salr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “salr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- salr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- salr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.