lǫgrétta

Old Norse

Etymology

From lǫg (“law”) +‎ rétta.

Noun

lǫgrétta f (genitive lǫgréttu)

1. an improvement upon the law
2. the legislature (in the Icelandic Commonwealth)
3. public court of law (in Norway, and in Iceland after the Union with Norway)

Declension

Declension of lǫgrétta (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lǫgrétta	lǫgréttan	lǫgréttur	lǫgrétturnar
accusative	lǫgréttu	lǫgréttuna	lǫgréttur	lǫgrétturnar
dative	lǫgréttu	lǫgréttunni	lǫgréttum	lǫgréttunum
genitive	lǫgréttu	lǫgréttunnar	lǫgréttna	lǫgréttnanna

Derived terms

• lǫgréttumaðr m
• lǫgréttuskipan f

Related terms

• lǫgrétt f
• lǫgréttr m

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: lagrett m, lagrette m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lagrett m, lagrette f

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lögrétta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 283; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

1. page/283 Internet Archive]

• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lögrétta.