sollr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swulaz (“swill”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to wash, wash down, gulp, swallow”).

Noun

sollr m

  1. (collective) swill
  2. (collective) a drunken company, rout

Declension

Declension of sollr (strong a-stem, singular only)
masculine singular
indefinite definite
nominative sollr sollrinn
accusative soll sollinn
dative solli sollinum
genitive solls sollsins

Descendants

  • Norwegian Nynorsk: soll
  • Norwegian Bokmål: soll

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sollr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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