hallr

== Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Norse ᚺᚨᛚᚨᛉ (halaʀ), ᚺᚨᛚᛁ (hali), from Proto-Germanic *halluz m. In Proto-Germanic originally a u-stem, but reanalyzed as an a-stem by the time of the inscription on Stenstad stone, dated approximately to the 400s. ==== Noun ==== hallr m (genitive halls, plural hallar) slope, hill rock, stone ===== Declension ===== ===== Related terms ===== hella f hellir m ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: hallur (Faroese: halli) Norn: hallj Norwegian Nynorsk: hall Old Swedish: hal Swedish: hall (dialectal), häll Danish: hald Norwegian Bokmål: hall → Scots: hall (Shetlandish) === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *halþaz (“sloping, inclined”) ==== Adjective ==== hallr leaning to one side, lying over, sloping, awry biased, partial ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== hallæri (“bad harvest”, literally “sloping year”) ===== Related terms ===== hella (“to pour out”) ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: hallur Norwegian Nynorsk: hall Norwegian Bokmål: hall === References === === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hallr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive