virtr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wirtiz.

Noun

virtr n[1]

  1. beerwort
    ok á gumna heillum, í víni ok virtri ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants
  • Icelandic: virtur, virt
  • Faroese: virtur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: vørter, vyrter; (dialectal) vyrt, vørt, vurt, vytter
  • Norwegian Bokmål: vørter
  • Swedish: vört
  • Scanian: vert

References
  1. “virtr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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