haugr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haugaz. Related to hár (“high”), Danish høj (“high”), Swedish hög (“hill”), North English how, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Noun

haugr m (genitive haugs, plural haugar)

  1. howe, mound; dung heap, midden
  2. cairn; sacrificial mound

Declension
  Declension of haugr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative haugr haugrinn haugar haugarnir
accusative haug hauginn hauga haugana
dative haugi hauginum haugum haugunum
genitive haugs haugsins hauga hauganna

Descendants
  • Icelandic: haugur
  • Faroese: heyggjur, heygur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: haug
  • Norwegian Bokmål: haug
  • Old Swedish: høgher
  • Danish: høj
  • → Middle English: hoge
  • → Old French: hoge, hogue

References
  • “haugr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
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