seggr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sagjaz (“retainer, warrior”), thus originally an a-stem. The root is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).

Noun

seggr m

1. (poetic) man

Declension

Declension of seggr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	seggr	seggrinn	seggir	seggirnir
accusative	segg	segginn	seggi	seggina
dative	segg	segginum	seggjum	seggjunum
genitive	seggs	seggsins	seggja	seggjanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: seggur
• Faroese: seggur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: segg

Further reading

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