helgr - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Proto-Germanic *hailagijō, *hailagī, related to *hailagōną (“to hallow”), see there for more.

helgr f (genitive helgar, plural helgar)

1. holiday, festival

   hringja til helgar

   to ring for a festival

• heilagr (“holy”)
• helga (“to hallow”)

• Icelandic: helgi f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: helg f; (dialectal) hæg f, halg f, helj f, halj f
• Norwegian Bokmål: helg m or f
• Swedish: helg c
• Danish: helg c

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “helgr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• de Vries, Jan (1977) Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary]‎^[1] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill