allr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”). Cognate with Old English eall, Old Frisian all, Old Saxon al, Old Dutch al, ol, Old High German al, Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɑlːr̩/

Adjective

allr (not comparable)

1. all, entire, whole
   • Vǫluspá, verse 1, lines 1-2, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 1:

     Hljóðs bið ek allar / helgar kindir, […]

     For silence I ask all /'holy kindreds […]

2. all, quite, entirely
3. gone, past, departed

Declension

Strong declension of allr

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	allr	ǫll	allt
accusative	allan	alla	allt
dative	ǫllum	allri	ǫllu
genitive	alls	allrar	alls
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	allir	allar	ǫll
accusative	alla	allar	ǫll
dative	ǫllum	ǫllum	ǫllum
genitive	allra	allra	allra

Descendants

• Icelandic: allur
• Faroese: allur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: all
• Old Swedish: alder, ᛆᛚᚦᚽᚱ (Runic)
  • Swedish: all
• Danish: al
  • Norwegian Bokmål: all

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “allr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 10
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “allr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 10; also available at the Internet Archive