naddr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• Naddr — as a name

Etymology

Variety of dial. Nor. and Swed. snadd "spike," and related to Swed. dial. snattar m. pl. "woman's breasts, nipples," Dutch snater (“beak,”) Luxembourgish Schnatt (“cut,”) German Schnate (“wound, border.”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

naddr m

1. stud, nail
2. as a name of a little person

Descendants

• Icelandic: naddur, Naddur (meanings as above)
• Norwegian Bokmål: nadd

Further reading

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