dagr

Old Norse

Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
    Proto-Germanic *dagaz
    Old Norse dagr

    Inherited from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-.

    Pronunciation

    • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɣr̩/

    Noun

    dagr m (genitive dags, dative degi, plural dagar)

    1. a day
      • Sverris saga 162, in 1834, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VIII. Copenhagen, page 398:
        […] fór þá enn aptr til liðsins, var þá ok komit at dægi; […]
        […] but came then back to his people, when the day was nearly come; […]
    2. (in the plural) days, times
      • Knýtlinga saga 65, in 1828, Þ. Guðmundsson, R. C. Rask, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume XI. Copenhagen, page 286:
        […] munu þeir bræðr hafa góða daga með Baldvina hertoga, […]
        […] the brothers will have happy days with the duke Baldwin, […]

    Declension

    Declension of dagr (strong a-stem)
    masculine singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative dagr dagrinn dagar dagarnir
    accusative dag daginn daga dagana
    dative degi deginum dǫgum dǫgunum
    genitive dags dagsins daga daganna

    Antonyms

    Derived terms

    • daga (“to dawn”)
    • dagan (“dawn”)
    • dagblik (“day-gleam”)
    • dagfar, dagferð, dagfmálr (“day's journey”)
    • dagganga (“a day's walk”)
    • daggeisli (“ladylove, sweetheart”)
    • daglangr (“all day long”)
    • dagleið (“day's journey”)
    • daglengis (“all day long”)
    • dagliga (“daily”)
    • dagligr (“daily”)
    • daglát (“daydreams”)
    • dagmessa (“morning terce”)
    • dagmál (“time about 9 o’clock a.m.”)
    • dagmálatið (“morning terce”)
    • dagmögr (“man”)
    • dagráð (“convenient time”)
    • dagróðr (“day's rowing”)
    • dagsannr (“plain as day”)
    • dagsbrún (“daybreak”)
    • dagsetr (“nightfall”)
    • dagsetrsskeið (“time before nightfall”)
    • dagsett (“at nightfall”)
    • dagshald (“celebration of a day”)
    • dagshelgr (“hallowedness of a day”)
    • dagskemtan (“pastime”)
    • dagskjarr (“shunning the daylight”)
    • dagsljós (“daylight”)
    • dagslátta (“day's mowing, three quarters of an acre”)
    • dagsmagn (“in full daylight”)
    • dagsmunr (“a day's diference”)
    • dagstarf (“a day's work”)
    • dagstingr (“daybreak”)
    • dagstjarna (“the morning star”)
    • dagstund (“daytime”)
    • dagstœtr (“fixed as to the day”)
    • dagsupprás (“daybreak”)
    • dagsverk (“a day's work”)
    • dagtími (“daytime”)
    • dagtíðir (“dayservice”)
    • dagverðarborð (“daymeal table”)
    • dagverðarmál (“daymeal time”)
    • dagverðr (“daymeal”)
    • dagvillr (“not knowing what day it is”)
    • dagvxr (“growth of a day”)
    • dagþing (“appointed meeting”)
    • dagþinga (“to negotiate”)
    • dagþings (“negotiations”)
    • deging (“dawn”)
    • dǫgur (“dawn”)
    • hvíldardagr m (“day of rest, the Sabbath”)
    • verða dagfátr (“to be overtaken by night”)

    Descendants

    • Icelandic: dagur
    • Faroese: dagur
    • Norn: dagh
      • → Scots: dag (Orkney, Shetlandic)
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: dag; (dialectal) dag’e
    • Elfdalian: dag
    • Old Swedish: dagher, ᚦᛆᚵᚼᚽᚱ
    • Old Danish: dagh
    • Gutnish: dag

    Further reading

    • Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “dagr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 94
    • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “dagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 84; also available at the Internet Archive
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