Old Norse

Alternative forms

• uðr

Noun

unnr f (genitive unnar, plural unnir)

1. a wave (an undulation in a body of water)
   • Vǫluspá, stanza 3, lines 3–4:

     […] vara sandr né sær
     né svalar unnir […]

     […] there was no sand nor sea
     nor gelid waves […]

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: unnur f

References

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