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heilagr

heilagr

Old Norse

Adjective

heilagr (comparative helgari, superlative helgastr)

  1. holy
  2. inviolable, sacred

Declension

Usage notes

This adjective is usually contracted before a vowel, while the root vowel becomes short, yielding another set of possible forms. However, uncontracted forms also tend to appear.

Descendants

References

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