sigr
Appearance
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *segaz. Compare Old English siġe, sigor, Old Saxon sigi, Old High German sigu, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍃 (sigis).
Noun
[edit]sigr m (genitive sigrs or sigrar, plural sigrar or sigrir)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: sigur
- Faroese: sigur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: siger
- Old Swedish: sigher
- Swedish: seger
- Old Danish: sighær
References
[edit]- “sigr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press