sǫðull

See also: söðull

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sod-tló-, from *sed- (“to be seated, sit”).

Noun

sǫðull m (genitive sǫðuls, plural sǫðlar)

a saddle
leggja sǫðul á hest
to saddle a horse
(literally, “[to] lay saddle on [a] horse”)

Declension

Declension of sǫðull (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sǫðull	sǫðullinn	sǫðlar	sǫðlarnir
accusative	sǫðul	sǫðulinn	sǫðla	sǫðlana
dative	sǫðli	sǫðlinum	sǫðlum	sǫðlunum
genitive	sǫðuls	sǫðulsins	sǫðla	sǫðlanna

Derived terms

sǫðla (“to saddle”)
sǫðlabúr n (“saddle-room”)
sǫðulbogi m (“saddle-bow”)
sǫðulgjǫrð f (“saddle-girth”)
sǫðulhringja f (“saddle-buckle”)
sǫðulklæði n (“saddle-cloth”)
sǫðulreim f (“saddle-strap”)
sǫðulreiði n (“saddle-harness”)
sǫðultreyja f (“saddle-cloth (?)”)

Descendants

Icelandic: söðull
Norwegian Nynorsk: sal
Norwegian Bokmål: sal
Old Swedish: saþul
- Swedish: sadel
Danish: sadel
- Norwegian Bokmål: sadel

References

söðull in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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