haugr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haugaz. Related to hár (high), Danish høj (high), Swedish hög (hill), North English how, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Noun

haugr m (genitive haugs, plural haugar)

  1. howe, mound; dung heap, midden
  2. cairn; sacrificial mound

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: haugur
  • Faroese: heyggjur, heygur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: haug
  • Norwegian Bokmål: haug
  • Old Swedish: høgher
  • Danish: høj
  • Middle English: hoge
  • Old French: hoge, hogue

References

  • haugr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
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