gulr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.

Adjective

gulr

1. yellow

Usage notes

"Gulr" is extremely rare in classical Old Norse works and never occurs in Eddic poetry.

Descendants

• Icelandic: gulur
• Faroese: gulur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gul, (dialectal) gul’u, gul’e
• Norwegian Bokmål: gul
• Old Swedish: gul, gol
  • Swedish: gul, (dialectal) gål
• Old Danish: guul
  • Danish: gul
• → Middle English: gul, gull, gulle, gule, goule, goole
  • ⇒ Scots: golgrav
  • Yola: ghou

See also

Colors in Old Norse · litir (layout · text)

hvítr	grár, hǫss	svartr
rauðr; rauðgulr	brúnn, jarpr	gulr
	grœnn
		blár
víolat

Further reading

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