strangr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *strangaz, whence also Old Saxon and Old English strang, Old High German strengi, strangi. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *streng-, *strenk- (“taut, stiff, tight”).

Adjective

strangr

severe

Descendants

Danish: streng
Icelandic: strangur
Norwegian: streng (Bokmål), streng (Nynorsk)
Swedish: sträng

References

strangr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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