apaldr
nafnorðkarlkyn
rs, rar, [ aphaltrâ; apuldre; abild; apel], doubtless a southern word, the inflective syllable dr being a mutilation of ‘tré,’ arbor, a word now almost extinct in Germany, (for a homely, common word such as ‘tré’ could not have been corrupted in the native tongue);—apaldr thus, etymologically as well as properly, means an apple-tree; fruits and fruit-trees were doubtless imported into Scandinavia from abroad; the word appears only in the later heroic poems, such as the 6; the verses in 5 are in a different metre from the rest of the poem, and probably interpolated, i. 120; epli á apaldri, 106; tveir apaldar (with the radical r dropped), iii. 60; apaldrs flúr, 200, 311: as the etymological sense in the transmuted word soon got lost, a fresh pleonastic compound was made, apaldrs-tré.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Dan.Danish.
- Swed.Swedish.
- viz.namely.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Hkv. Hjörv.Helga-kviða Hjörvarðssonar. (A. II.)
- Sdm.Sigrdrífu-mál. (A. II.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Sks.Konungs Skugg-sjá. (H. II.)
- Karl.Karla-magnús saga. (G. I.)