heilagr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hailagaz (“holy, sacred”), whence also Old English hāliġ, Old Frisian hēlich, Old Saxon hēlag, Old High German heilag, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌲𐍃 (hailags). Akin to heill +‎ -agr. === Adjective === heilagr (comparative helgari, superlative helgastr) holy inviolable, sacred ==== Usage notes ==== This adjective is usually contracted before a vowel, while the root vowel becomes short, yielding another set of possible forms. However, uncontracted forms also tend to appear. ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: heilagur, helgur Faroese: heilagur, halgur Norwegian Nynorsk: heilag; (dialectal) heilag’u Old Swedish: hēlagherSwedish: helig Danish: hellig Norwegian Bokmål: hellig === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “heilagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive