Noun: draugr
Gender: m
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | draugr |
| Sg. Def. | draugrinn |
| Pl. Indef. | draugar |
| Pl. Def. | draugarnir |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | draugs |
| Sg. Def. | draugsins |
| Pl. Indef. | drauga |
| Pl. Def. | drauganna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | draugi |
| Sg. Def. | drauginum |
| Pl. Indef. | draugum |
| Pl. Def. | draugunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | draug |
| Sg. Def. | drauginn |
| Pl. Indef. | drauga |
| Pl. Def. | draugana |
Sample Sentences
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Hann kyndir ofn brennanda, sagði draugrinn. ("He kindles furnace's fire", said the ghost.) [Þáttr Þorsteins skelks, in 1827, S. Egilsson, Þ. Guðmundsson, Fornmanna sögur, Volume III. Copenhagen, page 200]
Nouns inflected like draugr
skarfr,
øruggleikr,
stríðleikr,
greypleikr,
mildleikr,
hildileikr,
þykkleikr,
úfríðleikr,
vitrleikr,
jarldómr,
kunnleikr,
slœgleikr,
auraskortr,
tíðleikr,
roskinleikr,
horskleikr,
sandmelr,
døkkleikr,
skærleikr,
værleikr, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Norse *ᛞᚨᚱᚨᚢᚷᚨᛉ (*dᵃraugaʀ, “revenant, ghost, phantom; deceiver”), from Proto-Germanic *draugaz (“delusion, mirage, illusion”). Akin to Old Saxon gidrog (“delusion”) and Old High German bitrog (“delusion”), gitrog (“ghost”). See also Finnish raukka.
2. Also borrowed into the Sami-languages through an earlier Proto-Norse form, see Proto-Samic *rāvkë.
3. Related by analogy to etymology 2, such as drumbr (“log; peasant”), dræmr (“slow”); Scanian dråmer, dråmår (“devil”); Dutch drommel, drommels (“devil”); Latin drummedaris (“slow human”); Swedish drög (“nut, idiot”), dröger (“slow human”); Danish drog (“a good-for-nothing”); Scots draighie, draich, draick (“a lazy, lumpish, useless person”), draich (“slow, spiritless”). See: Finnish Nouns '
raukka'.
Verbs referencing "draugr"
English Nouns
drow, Icelandic Nouns
draugur, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
draug, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
draug, Faroese Nouns
dreygur.
Translations