salr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, hall”). Cognate with Old English sele and Gothic *𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍃 (*sals), first part of Old Frisian selskip, also Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali and first part of selihūs and selihof.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

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

Noun

salr m (genitive salar, plural salir)

  1. room, hall
    • Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
      […] sól skein sunnan / á salar steina, […]
      […] sun shone from the south / upon the stones of the hall. […]

Declension
  Declension of salr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative salr salrinn salir salirnir
accusative sal salinn sali salina
dative sal salinum sǫlum sǫlunum
genitive salar salarins sala salanna

Derived terms
Terms derived from salr
  • auðsalr (“treasure hall”)
  • bergsalr (“sky”)
  • dísarsalr (“temple”)
  • drjúpansalr (“clouded sky”)
  • dǫkksalr (“sea”)
  • foldsalr (“sky”)
  • grundarsal (“earth”)
  • fjallasalr (“sky”)
  • hásalr (“sky”)
  • heiðasalr (“sky”)
  • heimssalr (“sky”)
  • hreggsalr (“sky”)
  • hjartasalr (“breast”)
  • mánasalr (“heavens”)
  • mergjarsalr (“bone”)
  • regnsalr (“sky”)
  • rǫðlasalr (“heavens”)
  • salakynni (“homestead”)
  • saldrótt (“domestics”)
  • salgarðr (“wall”)
  • salgaukr, salgofnir (“the cock”)
  • salhús (“room”)
  • salkona (“housemaid”)
  • salkynni (“homestead”)
  • salþjóð (“domestics”)
  • sólarsalr (“heavens”)
  • sandasalr (“sea”)

Descendants
  • Icelandic: salur
  • Faroese: salur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sal
  • Old Swedish: sal
  • Danish: sal
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sal

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