lifr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *librō, whence also Old English lifer, Old High German lebara.

Noun

lifr f

1. liver

Descendants

• Icelandic: lifur
• Faroese: livur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: liver, lever; (dialectal) livr, livur
• Elfdalian: lyr
• Old Swedish: liver
  • Swedish: lever
• Old Danish: liuær
  • Danish: lever
    • Norwegian Bokmål: lever

Further reading

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