undr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wundrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”).

Noun

undr n (genitive undrs)

wonder
(with notion of shame) scandal

Declension

Declension of undr (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	undr	undrit	undr	undrin
accusative	undr	undrit	undr	undrin
dative	undri	undrinu	undrum	undrunum
genitive	undrs	undrsins	undra	undranna

Related terms

undra (“to wonder”)

Descendants

Icelandic: undur
Faroese: undur
Norwegian Nynorsk: under
Norwegian Bokmål: under
Swedish: under
Danish: under

References

undr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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