vangr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow, slope”). Cognate with Old English wang, wong, Old Saxon wang, Old High German wang, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (waggs). === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈwɑ̃ŋɡr̩/ === Noun === vangr m (genitive vangs, plural vangar) (poetic, especially in compounds) a garden, field, meadow Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, verse 15, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 104: ==== Declension ==== ᚢᚭᚴᛁ (uąki) — dative singular, Rök runestone ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “vangr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 678 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “vangr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 470; also available at the Internet Archive