blær

Danish

blær

From Old Norse blær (“gentle breeze, gust of wind”), from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”).

blær m (genitive singular blæs or blæjar or (archaic/obsolete) blævar, nominative plural blæir)

Declension of *blær* (masculine)
	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	blær	blærinn	blæir	blæirnir
accusative	blæ	blæinn	blæi	blæina
dative	blæ, blæi¹, blævi²	blænum	blæjum, blævum²	blæjunum, blævunum²
genitive	blæs, blæjar, blævar²	blæsins, blæjarins, blævarins²	blæja, blæva²	blæjanna, blævanna²

¹Rare.
²Archaic/obsolete.

Uncertain.

blær m (genitive singular blæs or blæjar, nominative plural blæir)

(describing the appearance of something) look, ambience, mood, feeling
Synonyms: yfirbragð, ásýnd

Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “blær”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
“blær” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
“blær”, in Ritmálssafn Orðabókar Háskólans [The Written Collection of the Lexicological Institute] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, (Can we date this quote?)