FromProto-Germanic*aldrą (whence alsoOld Englishealdor,Old High Germanaltar), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂el-(“to grow”).

aldr m (genitivealdrs,pluralaldrar)

1. age,lifetime

• Icelandic:aldur
• Faroese:aldur
• Norwegian Bokmål:alder
• Norwegian Nynorsk:alder
• Old Swedish:alder
  • Swedish:ålder
• Danish:alder

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “aldr”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

• Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
• Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
• Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
• Old Norse lemmas
• Old Norse nouns
• Old Norse masculine nouns
• Old Norse masculine a-stem nouns
• non:Time

• Pages with entries
• Pages with 1 entry