svǫrðr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *swarduz. === Noun === svǫrðr m (genitive svarðar, dative sverði) the skin of the head a rope of walrus-hide ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: svörður Faroese: svørður Norwegian Nynorsk: svord, svor Norwegian Bokmål: svor Swedish: svål Danish: svær → Middle English: swarth, suarth, swarthe, swarffe (influenced by turf?)English: swarth→ Middle Scots: swarf, swarffe === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “svörðr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 424; also available at the Internet Archive