dagr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day, name of the D-rune”). Cognate with Old English dæġ (Modern English day), Old Frisian dei, di, Old Saxon dag, Old Dutch dag, Old High German tac, tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɣr̩/

Noun

dagr m (genitive dags, dative degi, plural dagar)

  1. a day
    • Sverris saga 162, in 1834, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VIII. Copenhagen, page 398:
      […] fór þá enn aptr til liðsins, var þá ok komit at dægi; […]
      […] but came then back to his people, when the day was nearly come; […]
  2. (in the plural) days, times
    • Knýtlinga saga 65, in 1828, Þ. Guðmundsson, R. C. Rask, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume XI. Copenhagen, page 286:
      […] munu þeir bræðr hafa góða daga með Baldvina hertoga, […]
      […] the brothers will have happy days with the duke Baldwin, […]

Declension

Declension of dagr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative dagr dagrinn dagar dagarnir
accusative dag daginn daga dagana
dative degi deginum dǫgum dǫgunum
genitive dags dagsins daga daganna

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • daga (“to dawn”)
  • dagan (“dawn”)
  • dagblik (“day-gleam”)
  • dagfar, dagferð, dagfmálr (“day's journey”)
  • dagganga (“a day's walk”)
  • daggeisli (“ladylove, sweetheart”)
  • daglangr (“all day long”)
  • dagleið (“day's journey”)
  • daglengis (“all day long”)
  • dagliga (“daily”)
  • dagligr (“daily”)
  • daglát (“daydreams”)
  • dagmessa (“morning terce”)
  • dagmál (“time about 9 o’clock a.m.”)
  • dagmálatið (“morning terce”)
  • dagmögr (“man”)
  • dagráð (“convenient time”)
  • dagróðr (“day's rowing”)
  • dagsannr (“plain as day”)
  • dagsbrún (“daybreak”)
  • dagsetr (“nightfall”)
  • dagsetrsskeið (“time before nightfall”)
  • dagsett (“at nightfall”)
  • dagshald (“celebration of a day”)
  • dagshelgr (“hallowedness of a day”)
  • dagskemtan (“pastime”)
  • dagskjarr (“shunning the daylight”)
  • dagsljós (“daylight”)
  • dagslátta (“day's mowing, three quarters of an acre”)
  • dagsmagn (“in full daylight”)
  • dagsmunr (“a day's diference”)
  • dagstarf (“a day's work”)
  • dagstingr (“daybreak”)
  • dagstjarna (“the morning star”)
  • dagstund (“daytime”)
  • dagstœtr (“fixed as to the day”)
  • dagsupprás (“daybreak”)
  • dagsverk (“a day's work”)
  • dagtími (“daytime”)
  • dagtíðir (“dayservice”)
  • dagverðarborð (“daymeal table”)
  • dagverðarmál (“daymeal time”)
  • dagverðr (“daymeal”)
  • dagvillr (“not knowing what day it is”)
  • dagvxr (“growth of a day”)
  • dagþing (“appointed meeting”)
  • dagþinga (“to negotiate”)
  • dagþings (“negotiations”)
  • deging (“dawn”)
  • dǫgur (“dawn”)
  • hvíldardagr m (“day of rest, the Sabbath”)
  • verða dagfátr (“to be overtaken by night”)

Descendants

  • Icelandic: dagur
  • Faroese: dagur
  • Norn: dagh
    • → Scots: dag (Orkney, Shetlandic)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dag; (dialectal) dag’e
  • Elfdalian: dag
  • Old Swedish: dagher, ᚦᛆᚵᚼᚽᚱ
  • Old Danish: dagh
  • Gutnish: dag

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “dagr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 94
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “dagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 84; also available at the Internet Archive
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