gull – Old Norse noun declension

Old Norse noun forms of gull

Noun: gull
Gender: n

Nominative

Sg. Indef.gull
Sg. Def.gullit
Pl. Indef.gull
Pl. Def.gullin

Genitive

Sg. Indef.gulls
Sg. Def.gullsins
Pl. Indef.gulla
Pl. Def.gullanna

Dative

Sg. Indef.gulli
Sg. Def.gullinu
Pl. Indef.gullum
Pl. Def.gullunum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.gull
Sg. Def.gullit
Pl. Indef.gull
Pl. Def.gullin

Sample Sentences

  • Vér viljum ok gefa þér gull vort, […] (We also want to give you our gold, […]) [Laurentius saga 65, in 1858, Jón_Sigurðsson, Guðbrandur_Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 877]
  • Enn þegar sem hon bar þetta gull, […] (But when she wore that ring, […]) [Stjórn 78, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 254]

Nouns inflected like gull

ennitungl, augnamein, biskupskør, brimsvín, ím, úr, ef, ok, ástig, aflát, amboð, grjót, beizl, brauð, hljóð, haust, hvísl, naust, tungl, kveld, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”). Cognate with Old English gold, Old Frisian gold, Old Saxon gold, Old Dutch golt, Old High German gold, Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌻𐌸 (gulþ). See also Finnish kulta. Ultimately from Pre-Germanic *ǵʰl̥tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). See: Old English Nouns 'gold', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐌿𐌻𐌸', Finnish Nouns 'kulta'.

Verbs referencing "gull"

Faroese Nouns gull, Icelandic Nouns gull, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns gull, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns gull, Swedish Nouns gull, Danish Nouns guld, Swedish Nouns guld, Latvian Nouns zelts, Gothic Nouns 𐌲𐌿𐌻𐌸.

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