strangr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *strangaz, whence also Old Saxon and Old English strang, Old High German strengi, strangi. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”). === Adjective === strangr severe ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: strangur Faroese: strangur Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: streng Norwegian Nynorsk: streng Old Swedish: strænger, stranger Swedish: sträng, strång, strang (dialectal) Old Danish: stræng Danish: streng === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “strangr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive