Noun: ǫld
Gender: f
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | ǫld |
| Sg. Def. | ǫldin |
| Pl. Indef. | aldir |
| Pl. Def. | aldirnar |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | aldar |
| Sg. Def. | aldarinnar |
| Pl. Indef. | alda |
| Pl. Def. | aldanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | ǫldu; ǫld |
| Sg. Def. | ǫldunni; ǫldinni |
| Pl. Indef. | ǫldum |
| Pl. Def. | ǫldunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | ǫld |
| Sg. Def. | ǫldina |
| Pl. Indef. | aldir |
| Pl. Def. | aldirnar |
Sample Sentences
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Ár var alda / þar er Ýmir bygði, […] (In early ages, / when Ymir lived […]) [Vǫluspá, verse 3, lines 1-2, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 1]
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[…] ok at greina daga, uikur ok manadi, aar ok aldir (and to distinguish days from weeks and months, years and centuries) [Stjorn 95, in 1834, F. Magnússon, C.C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur. Volume VIII. Copenhagen, page 15]
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[…] now people find I grow old […] [Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Skúli Þorsteinsson, Poem about Svǫlðr 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 362. […]nú fiðr ǫld, at eldumk[…]]
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Era sva gott, / sem gott qveþa, / öl alda sona; […] (Is not so good, / as they say it is, / ale for the sons of men; […]) [Hávamál, verse 12, lines 1-3, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 44]
Nouns inflected like ǫld
ǫld,
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aldiz (“age, lifetime”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds). See: Gothic Nouns '
𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃'.
Verbs referencing "ǫld"
Danish Nouns
old, Icelandic Nouns
öld, Faroese Nouns
øld.
Translations