vreiðr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

reiðr (Old West Norse)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz, whence also Old English wrāþ ( > English wroth), Old High German reid. In Old West Norse there was a tendency to drop the initial v, yielding the variant reiðr.

Adjective

vreiðr

angry, wroth

Descendants

Danish: vred
Faroese: reiður (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)
Icelandic: reiður (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)

Norwegian (nynorsk): vreid, reid (via Old West Norse variant reiðr)
Swedish: vred

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