voð

From Old Norse váð, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz, whence also Old English wǣd, Old Saxon wād, Old High German wāt. Cognate with Faroese váð and Swedish våd.

• Rhymes: -ɔːð

voð f (genitive singular voðar, nominative plural voðir)

1. raiment, a piece cloth, weeds, clothing, garment, weave, fabric
   • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)

     Elds er þörf
     þeim er inn er kominn
     og á kné kalinn.
     Matar og voða
     er manni þörf,
     þeim er hefir um fjall farið.

     Fire he needs
     who with frozen knees
     Has come from the cold without;
     Food and clothes
     must the farer have,
     The man from the mountains come.

• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “voð”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies