gulr

Old Norse

Etymology

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, gulle, goule, goole
    • ⇒ Scots: golgrav

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

References
  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, issue 2, University of Illinois Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–252

Further reading
  • “gulr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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