bolr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Cognate of German Bohle (“thick plank”).

Noun

bolr m (genitive bols, plural bolir)

  1. trunk (of a tree or the body)

Declension
  Declension of bolr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bolr bolrinn bolir bolirnir
accusative bol bolinn boli bolina
dative bol bolinum bolum bolunum
genitive bols bolsins bola bolanna

Descendants
  • Icelandic: bolur
  • Faroese: bulur
  • Norwegian: bol
  • Swedish: bål
  • → Middle English: bole

References
  • “bolr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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