hvelpr
Appearance
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz. Akin to English whelp.
Noun
[edit]hvelpr m (genitive hvelps, plural hvelpar)
Declension
[edit] Declension of hvelpr (strong a-stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: hvolpur
- Faroese: hvølpur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kvelp, kvalp; (dialectal) kvølp, kvolp
- Elfdalian: wep
- Old Swedish: hvælper, hvalper
- Swedish: valp
- Danish: hvalp
References
[edit]- “hvelpr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press