haugr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *haugaz. Related to hár (“high”), Danish høj (“high”), Swedish hög (“hill”), North English how, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz. === Noun === haugr m (genitive haugs, plural haugar) howe, mound; dung heap, midden cairn; sacrificial mound ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “haugr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “haugr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive