vargr
Appearance
Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-. Compare Old English wearh, wearg.
Noun
[edit]vargr m
Usage notes
[edit]- Unlike ulfr (“wolf”), which is frequently found in names and thus seems to have had some positive connotations, this is not the case with vargr, suggesting its sense was thoroughly negative.
Declension
[edit] Declension of vargr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]- vargdropi m (“son of an outlaw”, literally “wolf-dropping”)
- varghamr m (“wolf-skin”)
- vargljóð n pl (“wolf-songs, the howling of wolves”)
- vargtré n (“outlaw-tree; gallows”)
- vargr í véum (“someone who commits violence in a religious shrine”)
- morðvargr m (“someone outlawed for murder”)
- goðvargr m (“someone who offends the gods; a blasphemer”)
- griðvargr m (“truce-breaker; someone outlawed for breaking a truce”)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: vargur
- Faroese: vargur
- Norn: varg
- Norwegian Nynorsk: varg
- Elfdalian: warg
- Old Swedish: vargher
- Swedish: varg
- Danish: varg
- Norwegian Bokmål: varg
- → English: warg (learned)
References
[edit]- “vargr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press