drengr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *drangijaz (“staff; stake; man; servant”). Cognate with Old English dreng (“warrior; soldier”). === Noun === drengr m (genitive drengs, plural drengir) a valiant, gallant, chivalrous man lad, youth, a boy one who is bold, reckless, or inexperienced ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: drengur Faroese: drongur Norwegian Nynorsk: dreng; (dialectal) draing Norwegian Bokmål: dreng Old Swedish: drænger Swedish: dräng→ Northern Sami: reaŋga→ Finnish: renki→ Ingrian: trenki→ Karelian: renki Old Danish: dræng Danish: dreng → North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: dring Mooring: dräng Sylt: Dreeng === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “drengr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive