dagr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day, name of the D-rune”). Cognate with Old English dæġ (Modern English day), Old Frisian dei, di, Old Saxon dag, Old Dutch dag, Old High German tac, tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɡr̩/

Noun

dagr m (genitive dags, dative degi, plural dagar)

  1. a day
    • Sverris saga 162, in 1834, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VIII. Copenhagen, page 398:
      […] fór þá enn aptr til liðsins, var þá ok komit at dægi; […]
      […] but came then back to his people, when the day was nearly come; […]
  2. (in the plural) days, times
    • Knýtlinga saga 65, in 1828, Þ. Guðmundsson, R. C. Rask, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume XI. Copenhagen, page 286:
      […] munu þeir bræðr hafa góða daga með Baldvina hertoga, […]
      […] the brothers will have happy days with the duke Baldwin, […]

Declension
  Declension of dagr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative dagr dagrinn dagar dagarnir
accusative dag daginn daga dagana
dative degi deginum dǫgum dǫgunum
genitive dags dagsins daga daganna

Antonyms

Derived terms
Terms derived from dagr
  • daga (“to dawn”)
  • dagan (“dawn”)
  • dagblik (“day-gleam”)
  • dagfar, dagferð, dagfmálr (“day's journey”)
  • dagganga (“a day's walk”)
  • daggeisli (“ladylove, sweetheart”)
  • daglangr (“all day long”)
  • daglát (“daydreams”)
  • dagleið (“day's journey”)
  • daglengis (“all day long”)
  • dagliga (“daily”)
  • dagligr (“daily”)
  • dagmál (“time about 9 o’clock a.m.”)
  • dagmálatið (“morning terce”)
  • dagmögr (“man”)
  • dagmessa (“morning terce”)
  • dagráð (“convenient time”)
  • dagróðr (“day's rowing”)
  • dagsannr (“plain as day”)
  • dagsbrún (“daybreak”)
  • dagsetr (“nightfall”)
  • dagsetrsskeið (“time before nightfall”)
  • dagsett (“at nightfall”)
  • dagshald (“celebration of a day”)
  • dagshelgr (“hallowedness of a day”)
  • dagskemtan (“pastime”)
  • dagskjarr (“shunning the daylight”)
  • dagslátta (“day's mowing, three quarters of an acre”)
  • dagsljós (“daylight”)
  • dagsmagn (“in full daylight”)
  • dagsmunr (“a day's diference”)
  • dagstarf (“a day's work”)
  • dagstingr (“daybreak”)
  • dagstjarna (“the morning star”)
  • dagstund (“daytime”)
  • dagstœtr (“fixed as to the day”)
  • dagsupprás (“daybreak”)
  • dagsverk (“a day's work”)
  • dagtíðir (“dayservice”)
  • dagtími (“daytime”)
  • dagverðarborð (“daymeal table”)
  • dagverðarmál (“daymeal time”)
  • dagverðr (“daymeal”)
  • dagvillr (“not knowing what day it is”)
  • dagvxr (“growth of a day”)
  • dagþing (“appointed meeting”)
  • dagþinga (“to negotiate”)
  • dagþings (“negotiations”)
  • deging (“dawn”)
  • dǫgur (“dawn”)
  • hvíldardagr m (“day of rest, the Sabbath”)
  • verða dagfátr (“to be overtaken by night”)

Descendants
  • Icelandic: dagur
  • Faroese: dagur
  • Norn: dagh
    • → Scots: dag (Orkney, Shetlandic)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dag; (dialectal) dag’e
  • Elfdalian: dag
  • Old Swedish: dagher, ᚦᛆᚵᚼᚽᚱ
  • Old Danish: dagh
  • Gutnish: dag

References
  • “dagr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dagr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • dagr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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