gulr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.[1]

Adjective

gulr

  1. yellow

Usage notes

"Gulr" is extremely rare in classical Old Norse works and never occurs in Eddic poetry.[1]

Descendants
  • Icelandic: gulur
  • Faroese: gulur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gul, (dialectal) gul’u, gul’e
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gul
  • Old Swedish: gul, gol
    • Swedish: gul, (dialectal) gål
  • Old Danish: guul
  • → Middle English: gul, gull, gulle, gule, goole, goule
    • ⇒ Scots: golgrav
    • Yola: ghou

See also
Colors in Old Norse · litir (layout · text)
     hvítr      grár, hǫss      svartr
             rauðr; rauðgulr              brúnn, jarpr              gulr
                          grœnn             
                                       blár
             víolat                          

References
  1. Crawford, Jackson W. (2016 April) “Bleikr, Gulr, and the Categorization of Color in Old Norse”, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 115, number 2, University of Illinois Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–252

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