morðvargr
Old Norse
noun
Definitions
- murderer
Etymology
Compound from Old Norse morð (murder) + Old Norse vargr (wolf, outlaw, evildoer).
Origin
Old Norse
vargr
Gloss
wolf, outlaw, evildoer
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
狼
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- warg English
- mord Norwegian Bokmål
- varg Norwegian Bokmål
- *murþą Proto-Germanic
- *wargaz Proto-Germanic
- mord Swedish
- mord Norwegian Nynorsk
- varg Norwegian Nynorsk
- morð Old Norse
- vargr Old Norse
- mord Danish
- morð Icelandic
- vargur Icelandic
- morð Faroese
- vargher Old Swedish
- gvarj Westrobothnian
- warg Westrobothnian
- wærg Westrobothnian
- morth Old Danish
- warg Elfdalian