hár

From Old Norse hár, from Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”).

• IPA^(key): /hɔaːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔaːɹ

hár n (genitive singular hárs, plural hár)

1. hair

• IPA^(key): /hauːr/
• Rhymes: -auːr

From Old Norse hár, hór, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

hár (comparative hærri, superlative hæstur)

1. high

   Múrinn er hár.

   The wall is high

2. tall

   Guð minn almáttugur! Þú ert orðinn svo hár!

   My god almighty! You've gotten so tall!

• há-

From Old Norse hár, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

hár n (genitive singular hárs, nominative plural hár)

1. hair

   Þú hefur fallegt hárin.

   You have pretty hairs.

• hárgreiðsla
• hárþurrka
• í húð og hár
• skapahár
• skírnarhár

• hæra

Cognate with the Faroese háur, hávur,[1] Norwegian Bokmål hai and Swedish haj.

hár m (genitive singular hás, nominative plural hávar)

1. (archaic) a dogfish ^syn.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• (dogfish ^def.): háfiskur, háfur

• há-

• hrá

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /hɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /hæːɾˠ/

hár

1. h-prothesized form of ár

• hór, hœgr

From Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”). Cognate with Old English hēah, Old Frisian hāch, Old Saxon hōh, Old High German hōh, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs).

hár (comparative hærri, superlative hæstr)

1. high, tall

• Icelandic: hár
• Faroese: háur
• Norwegian: høg
• Old Swedish: hø̄gher
  • Swedish: hög
• Danish: høj
  • Faroese: høgur
• Old Gutnish: haur
  • Gutnish: haugar, haug, hau
• Westrobothnian: haug
• Norn: hjog, høg

From Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”). Compare Old Saxon and Old High German hār, Old English her, hǣr.

hár n

1. hair

• Danish: hår
• Faroese: hár
• Icelandic: hár
• Norwegian: hår
• Swedish: hår

hár m (genitive hás, plural háir)

1. spiny dogfish

   First Grammatical Treatise, 84 22:

   Har vex á kykvendum, en hȧr er fiskr.

   Hair grows on living things, but har is a fish.

The First Grammarian says that this word had a long nasalized vowel, marked with an overdot, and contrasts it with hár (“hair”), which does not.

• Faroese: háur, hávur
• Icelandic: hár