fǫlr

From Proto-Germanic *falwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *polHwós (“pale, gray”).

fǫlr (accusative fǫlvan)

1. pale

   fǫlr sem aska (gras, nár)

   pale as ashes (grass, a corpse)

   hann gørði fǫlvan

   he turned pale

   • 1000s, Sigtuna box

     ᚠᚢᚼᛚ × ᚢᛅᛚᚢᛅ × ᛋᛚᛅᛁᛏ × ᚠᛅᛚᚢᚬᚾ × ᚠᚬᚾᚴᛆᚢᚴ × ᚬᚾᚬᛋᛅᚢᚴᛅ
     fuhl × ualua × slait × faluąn × fąnkauk × ąnąsauka

     fugl velva sleit fǫlvan / fann gauk á nás auka

     A bird tore the pale robber apart / one found an increase/swelling [of the stomach] on the corpse-bird.

• fǫlna (“to palen, turn pale”)
• fǫlnan
• fǫlski
• niðfǫlr

• Icelandic: fölur
• Faroese: følin
• Old Swedish:
  • Swedish: fal

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fölr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 157; also available at the Internet Archive