haugr

Old Norse

Etymology

Akin to hár (“high”), Danish høj (“hill”), Northern Sami hög (“hill”), North English how, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Noun

haugr m (genitive haugs, plural haugar)

howe, mound; dung heap, midden
cairn; sacrificial mound

Declension

Declension of haugr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	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

Danish: høj c
Faroese: heyggjur m
Icelandic: haugur m

Norwegian: haug (Bokmål), haug (Nynorsk)
Swedish: hög c

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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