gandr – Old Norse noun declension

Old Norse noun forms of gandr

Noun: gandr
Gender: m

Nominative

Sg. Indef.gandr
Sg. Def.gandrinn
Pl. Indef.gandar
Pl. Def.gandarnir

Genitive

Sg. Indef.gands
Sg. Def.gandsins
Pl. Indef.ganda
Pl. Def.gandanna

Dative

Sg. Indef.gandi
Sg. Def.gandinum
Pl. Indef.gǫndum
Pl. Def.gǫndunum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.gand
Sg. Def.gandinn
Pl. Indef.ganda
Pl. Def.gandana

Sample Sentences

  • hallar gandr (building damage (fire))
  • selju gandr (willow damage (wind))
  • Fóstbrǿðra saga (“The Saga of the Sworn Brothers”), chapter 23 (And, awakening, she was painfully short of breath. Badwar, her son, then said: "You sounded pained in your sleep, mother, or has something happened to thee?" Thurdis answers: "I have roamed far with my gands tonight, and am now wise about such things as I knew not before.")
  • Her eptir samnaz saman með Hertnið konungi mikill her. Ok hans kona Ostacia ferr út ok rærði sinn gand—þat kǫllom vér at hon færi at seiða, svá sem gǫrt var í forneskju—at fjǫlkungar konur, þær er vér kǫllom vǫlur, skyldu seiða hónum seið. Svá mikit gerði hon af sér i fjǫlkyngi ok trollskap, at hon seiddi til sin margskonar dýr, léona ok bjǫrnu ok flugdreka stóra. Hon tamði þá alla þar til at þeir lýddo henni, ok hon mátti vísa þeim á hendr sínom úvinum.
  • After this a great army gathers around king Hertnid, and his wife Ostacia goes out and reared her gand—by which we mean that she went out to practice magic (seiðr) as was done in ancient times—that the sorcerous women which we call walas should aid him by seiðr. She accomplished so much by sorcery and trollship that she bewitched for herself all kinds of animals; lions and bears and great flying dragons. She tamed them all until they obeyed her and she could set them upon her enemies. [Þiðreks saga, chapter 394 (352)]

Nouns inflected like gandr

garðr, gangr, gandr, garpr, galtr,

Etymology

1. From an earlier gandʀ (pre 11th c.), from Proto-Norse *ᚷᚨᚾᛞᚨᛉ (*gandaʀ), as attested in adjective ᚢᚾᚷᚨᚾᛞᛁᛉ (ungandiʀ, “not bewitched”), from Proto-Germanic *gandaz. Root sense, “magic”? or “spirit”?, is unknown.
2. Unclear relations to Etymology 2.

Verbs referencing "gandr"

Faroese Nouns gandur, Icelandic Nouns gandur, Icelandic Nouns göndull.

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