valr

== Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Germanic *walaz (“corpse, body, battlefield”). Cognate with Old English wæl, Old Saxon wal, Old High German wal. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“wound, injure”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈwɑlr̩/ ==== Noun ==== valr m (genitive vals) (uncountable, in the singular) the dead, slain in battle Sögubrot af Fornkonungum 8, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 380: […] ok allan þann val, sem fellr á þeima velli, gef ek Óðni. […] and all those slain, who shall fall at that field, I shall give unto Odin. ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Danish: val c Faroese: valur m Icelandic: valur m Norwegian: val m Swedish: val c, (dialectal) vall ⇒ Swedish: vale (“the dead”, adjective) === Etymology 2 === Uncertain. Possibly an ancient borrowing from Proto-Celtic *wolkos (“hawk”). ==== Noun ==== valr m (genitive vals, plural valir) falcon, hawk Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 346: Vali scal eigi veiþa oc alptir oc gæs oc andir; […] Falcons shall not be hunted, nor swans nor geese nor ducks; […] Staraya Ladoga, in 840: [E]s Œfi of variðr hali valr Hríms fránmanna grand fimbulsinni plóga. ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: valur m === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “valr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 676 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “valr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 468; also available at the Internet Archive