sjaldan

• skjaldan (regional)

From Old Norse sjaldan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjaltan/

  Rhymes: -altan

sjaldan (comparative sjaldnar, superlative sjaldnast)

1. seldom, rarely

• sjaldan er ein báran stök
• örsjaldan

• “sjaldan” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Proto-Germanic *seldanē.

sjaldan (comparative sjaldnar, superlative sjaldnast)

1. seldom

• Icelandic: sjaldan
• Faroese: sjáldan, sjaldan
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjeldan; (dialectal) sjalda, sjølda, sjeldom
• Old Swedish: siäldan, säldan, siällan
  • Swedish: sällan
• Old Danish: siældæn
  • Danish: sjælden
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sjelden

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