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völlr

vǫllr

See also: vollur, völlur, vøllur, and Völlur

Old Norse

Noun

vǫllr m (genitive vallar, dative velli, plural vellir)

  1. field, flat ground, meadow

Declension

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ Alwin Kloekhorst (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon, Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *walþuz ‎(“forest”). Cognate with Old English weald, wald, Old Frisian wald, Old Saxon wald, Old High German wald. According to Kloekhorst, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wólnus ‎(“meadow, pasture”)[1] and cognate with Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 ‎(wellu-š, “pasture, meadow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɒlːr̩/

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