gulr
Appearance
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *gulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.[1]
Adjective
[edit]gulr
Usage notes
[edit]"Gulr" is extremely rare in classical Old Norse works and never occurs in Eddic poetry.[1]
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: gulur
- Faroese: gulur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gul, (dialectal) gul’u, gul’e
- Norwegian Bokmål: gul
- Old Swedish: gul, gol
- Old Danish: guul
- Danish: gul
- → Middle English: gul, gull, gulle, gule, goule, goole
See also
[edit]hvítr | grár, hǫss | svartr |
rauðr; rauðgulr | brúnn, jarpr | gulr |
grœnn | ||
blár | ||
víolat |
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crawford, Jackson W. (2016 April) “Bleikr, Gulr, and the Categorization of Color in Old Norse”, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 115, number 2, University of Illinois Press, , →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–252
Further reading
[edit]- “gulr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press