gulr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.[1]

Adjective

gulr

  1. yellow

Usage notes

"Gulr" is extremely rare in classical Old Norse works and never occurs in Eddic poetry.[1]

Descendants

  • Icelandic: gulur
  • Faroese: gulur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gul, (dialectal) gul’u, gul’e
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gul
  • Old Swedish: gul, gol
    • Swedish: gul, (dialectal) gål
  • Old Danish: guul
  • → Middle English: gul, gull, gulle, gule, goule, goole
    • ⇒ Scots: golgrav

See also

Colors in Old Norse · litir (layout · text)
     hvítr      grár, hǫss      svartr
             rauðr; rauðgulr              brúnn, jarpr              gulr
                          grœnn             
                                       blár
             víolat                          

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crawford, Jackson W. (April 2016) “Bleikr, Gulr, and the Categorization of Color in Old Norse”, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 115, number 2, University of Illinois Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–252

Further reading

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