fáganarmaðr

Old Norse

Etymology

From fágan (“worship”) +‎ maðr (“man, person”). The first part being from fága (“to adorn, cultivate, worship”).

Noun

fáganarmaðr m (genitive fáganarmanns, plural fáganarmenn)

1. worshipper

Declension

Declension of fáganarmaðr (strong consonant stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fáganarmaðr	fáganarmaðrinn	fáganarmenn	fáganarmenninir
accusative	fáganarmann	fáganarmanninn	fáganarmenn	fáganarmennina
dative	fáganarmanni	fáganarmanninum	fáganarmǫnnum	fáganarmǫnnunum
genitive	fáganarmanns	fáganarmannsins	fáganarmanna	fáganarmannanna

Related terms

• fágandi
• fágari

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fáganarmaðr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 131; also available at the Internet Archive