drengr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *drangijaz (“staff; stake; man; servant”). Cognate with Old English dreng (“warrior; soldier”).

Noun

drengr m (genitive drengs, plural drengir)

a valiant, gallant, chivalrous man
lad, youth, a boy.
one who is bold, reckless, or inexperienced.

Declension

Declension of drengr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drengr	drengrinn	drengir	drengirnir
accusative	dreng	drenginn	drengi	drengina
dative	dreng	drenginum	drengjum	drengjunum
genitive	drengs	drengsins	drengja	drengjanna

Descendants

Icelandic: drengur
Faroese: drongur
Norwegian Nynorsk: dreng; (dialectal) draing
Norwegian Bokmål: dreng
Old Swedish: drænger
- Swedish: dräng
  - → Northern Sami: reaŋga
  - → Finnish: renki
Danish: dreng
- → North Frisian: dräng, dring

References

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

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