svalr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *swalaz (“cool, [originally: burningly] cold”), from *swelaną (“to burn slowly, create a burningly cold sensation”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to shine, warm up, burn”). Akin to German schwül (“sultry”), Dutch zwoel (“sultry”), and Ancient Greek σέλας (sélas, “luminous”). === Adjective === svalr (comparative svalari, superlative svalastr) cool, cold Vǫluspá, stanza 3, lines 3–4: […] vara sandr né sær né svalar unnir […] […] there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves […] ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== svala ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “svalr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive