Dictionary
English–Old Norse dictionary.
Curated from public-domain sources (Cleasby-Vigfusson, Lexicon Poeticum). Search below — includes part of speech, IPA, notes, and Younger Futhark. More lemmas can be added via public/data/cleasby.json.
More Than 15000 words
| English | Old Norse | POS | Notes / IPA | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -er | -ari | n. | ||
| -ing | -ing | n. | ||
| -ish | -iskr | n. | ||
| -ness | -naðr | n. | ||
| a battle | bǫð | noun | ||
| a blow | hǫgg | noun | ||
| a blow with a club | kylfuhǫgg | noun | ||
| a body | lík | noun | ||
| a boy or a young man | piltr | noun | ||
| a breaker | brjótr | noun | ||
| a bridge on the way from hel | Gjallarbrú | name | ||
| a burial monument | kumbl | noun | ||
| a burning light | ljós | noun | ||
| a caravan driver | lestreki | noun | ||
| a cat's tail | kattarhali | noun | ||
| a chest | kista | noun | ||
| a chief | hǫfðingi | noun | ||
| a clearing | þveit | noun | ||
| a concubine | byrgiskona | noun | ||
| a destroyer | brjótr | noun | ||
| a district governed by such a council | vápnatak | noun | ||
| a dog | hundr | noun | ||
| a ewe with a lamb | dilkær | noun | ||
| a female dwarf | dyrgja | noun | ||
| a female given name | Ása | name | ||
| a female given name from old irish | Eðna | name | ||
| a female jotun | fála | noun | ||
| a fox | refr | noun | ||
| a friend | frændi | noun | ||
| a frost giant | hrímþurs | noun | ||
| a geminate f | ꜰ | character | ||
| a geminate g | ɢ | character | ||
| a geminate n | ɴ | character | ||
| a geminate s | ꜱ | character | ||
| a gift | gjǫf | noun | ||
| a gnashing | gnastan | noun | ||
| a god | díar | noun | ||
| a god involved in the creation of humans | Hǿnir | name | ||
| a grey stone | grásteinn | noun | ||
| a group of ten | tigr | noun | ||
| a hanging drop | digull | noun | ||
| a heiti for odin | Alfǫðr | name | ||
| a heiti of odin | Hjarrandi | name | ||
| a highborn | jarl | noun | ||
| a hollow | lægð | noun | ||
| a household | drótt | noun | ||
| a judge | dómandi | noun | ||
| a kind of beer | mungát | noun | ||
| a kind of fence | hagfella | noun | ||
| a kind of seal | ørkn | noun | ||
| a kind of tree | fjǫrr | noun | ||
| a lair | híð | noun | ||
| a large net | nót | noun | ||
| a legendary king | Kjárr | noun | ||
| a little chest | kistill | noun | ||
| a little girl | stulka | noun | ||
| a loss | sakni | noun | ||
| a male given name | Ella | name | ||
| a male given name from latin | Magnús | name | ||
| a male given name from old irish | Njáll | name | ||
| a man | gumi | noun | ||
| a man of valour | karlmaðr | noun | ||
| a man that has made another his heir | arftǫkukarl | noun | ||
| a mare | stedda | noun | ||
| a mare with a foal | fylmerr | noun | ||
| a means of passage | far | noun | ||
| a messenger | eyrendreki | noun | ||
| a month of the norse calendar | þorri | noun | ||
| a mountain giant | bergrisi | name | ||
| a noise | jálmr | noun | ||
| a person asking | beizlumaðr | noun | ||
| a person dwelling in a valley | dœll | noun | ||
| a priest's wife | prestkona | noun | ||
| a push | dyttr | noun | ||
| a raging warrior of superhuman strength | berserkr | noun | ||
| a ruler | dróttnari | noun | ||
| a sanctuary | hǫrgr | noun | ||
| a sea somewhere in the north | Dumbshaf | name | ||
| a seat | sæti | noun | ||
| a shape | skapan | noun | ||
| a short garment without sleeves | heðinn | noun | ||
| a sickness that ends ones life | helsótt | noun | ||
| a small ferry | eikja | noun | ||
| a small glass for liquor | staup | noun | ||
| a small goatling | kiðlingr | noun | ||
| a sneeze | hneri | noun | ||
| a space marked out | reitr | noun | ||
| a spring | brunnr | noun | ||
| a stirring stick | þvara | noun | ||
| a strange thing | kynligleikr | noun | ||
| a string | síma | noun | ||
| a student of a particular school | -ingr | suffix | ||
| a supernatural being | trǫll | noun | ||
| a thick pole | áss | noun | ||
| a tree | viðr | noun | ||
| a troll woman | fála | noun | ||
| a valiant | drengr | noun | ||
| a valkyrie | Hlǫkk | name | ||
| a way | vegferill | noun | ||
| a well | bruðr | noun | ||
| a wooden box | meiss | noun | ||
| a wound | harmr | noun | ||
| aachen | Takn | n. | ||
| aarhus | Áróss | n. | ||
| abandon | yfirgefa | v. | ||
| abandoned | yfirgaf | v. | ||
| abandons | yfirgefr | v. | ||
| abbess | abbatissa | noun | ||
| abide | bíða | verb | ||
| ability | mjúkleikr | noun | ||
| able | fǿrr | adj | ||
| able to walk | gengr | adj | ||
| abode | ból | noun | ||
| abolish | afnema | v. | ||
| abolished | afnam | v. | ||
| abolishes | afnemr | v. | ||
| about | um | prep | ||
| above | yfir | prep | ||
| abroad | útanlands | adv | ||
| absorb | soga | v. |