sǫðull

See also: söðull

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sod-tló-, from *sed- (“to be seated, sit”).

Noun

sǫðull m (genitive sǫðuls, plural sǫðlar)

1. a saddle

   leggja sǫðul á hest

   to saddle a horse

   (literally, “[to] lay saddle on [a] horse”)

Declension

Declension of sǫðull (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sǫðull	sǫðullinn	sǫðlar	sǫðlarnir
accusative	sǫðul	sǫðulinn	sǫðla	sǫðlana
dative	sǫðli	sǫðlinum	sǫðlum	sǫðlunum
genitive	sǫðuls	sǫðulsins	sǫðla	sǫðlanna

Derived terms

• sǫðla (“to saddle”)
• sǫðlabúr n (“saddle-room”)
• sǫðulbogi m (“saddle-bow”)
• sǫðulgjǫrð f (“saddle-girth”)
• sǫðulhringja f (“saddle-buckle”)
• sǫðulklæði n (“saddle-cloth”)
• sǫðulreim f (“saddle-strap”)
• sǫðulreiði n (“saddle-harness”)
• sǫðultreyja f (“saddle-cloth (?)”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: söðull
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sal
• Norwegian Bokmål: sal
• Old Swedish: saþul
  • Swedish: sadel
• Danish: sadel
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sadel

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “söðull”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 428; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

1. page/428 Internet Archive]