hǫrgr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *harugaz (“sanctuary, cairn, grove”). Cognate with Old English hearg, hearga, Old High German harug, haruc, haruch. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱarǝk- (“fenced or enclosed area”). === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈhɒrɣr̩/ === Noun === hǫrgr m (genitive hǫrgs, plural hǫrgar) (Germanic paganism) a sanctuary, cairn, altar Hyndluljóð, verse 10, lines 1-2, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 83: ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: hörgur m Faroese: hørgur m Norwegian Nynorsk: horg m Norwegian Bokmål: horg m Old Swedish: hargher m Swedish: harg c, horg c, horv c Danish: harg c, hørg c === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “hǫrgr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 311 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hörgr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 226; also available at the Internet Archive