aldr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aldrą (whence also Old English ealdor, Old High German altar), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow”).

Noun

aldr m (genitive aldrs, plural aldrar)

1. age, lifetime

Declension

  Declension of aldr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aldr	aldrinn	aldrar	aldrarnir
accusative	aldr	aldrinn	aldra	aldrana
dative	aldri	aldrinum	ǫldrum	ǫldrunum
genitive	aldrs	aldrsins	aldra	aldranna

Descendants

• Icelandic: aldur
• Faroese: aldur
• Norwegian Bokmål: alder
• Norwegian Nynorsk: alder
• Old Swedish: alder
  • Swedish: ålder
• Danish: alder

References

• “aldr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press